July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
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Global IP addresses
In addition to regional IP addresses, Google Cloud Platform offers global IPv4 or IPv6 IP addresses. These addresses are used in TCP and SSL proxies which are a core component of Google's HTTP(S) load balancers. Unlike regional IP addresses, global IP addresses cannot be directly assigned to Compute Engine instances. When a user visits a global IP address, it is automatically resolved to the nearest Google Cloud data center relative to that user. This is achieved via anycast technology, which allows a single IP address to have multiple routing paths.
Global IP addresses are created and managed through the same gcloud compute addresses command as regional IP addresses. Users simply specify that the IP address should be ...