Appendix 1: Practicing with Basic GCP Services

In this appendix, we will show some GCP resource provisioning examples, using the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell. We will use the following architecture to practice using the Google Cloud console, as shown in Figure 11.1:

• A VPC network, VPC1, and two subnets in it: a public subnet1 and a private subnet2
• A virtual machine (VM) in the public subnet1 that has an external IP address and can be accessed from the internet
• A VM in the private subnet2 that does not have an external IP address and thus can only be accessed from the console browser, or from VMs within the same VPC
• Another VPC network, VPC2, and one subnet within VPC2: a private subnet8
• A VM in the private subnet8
• Peering between VPC1 and VPC2

Figure 11.1 – A sample architecture for GCP console practice

In the GCP practice diagram in Figure 11.1, public subnet1 is accessible from the internet. There is a Google...