Chapter 10: Networking Options in GCP
We already know that compute is the most fundamental cloud feature. But even if we are able to do the computation without connecting to our resources, we get no value. Networking covers many types of connections. We need to be able to connect to the Google Cloud Console and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) API. We may want to connect our on-premises data center to GCP either through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or through a high bandwidth interconnect. Finally, we might need to have load-balanced connectivity to Virtual Machine (VM) instances. GCP networking will help us with all of that.
In this chapter, we will go through all the theory that we need to know so that we understand how workloads communicate internally and externally with GCP. We will also have a look at all the basic networking services.
We will cover the following topics:
- Exploring GCP networking
- Understanding Virtual Private Clouds
- Load balancing
- Network...