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 GCP API. We may want to connect our on-premise datacenter 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 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 to GCP. We will also have a look at all the basic networking services.
We will cover the following topics:
- Exploring GCP
- Understanding Virtual Private...