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Google Cloud Platform for Developers
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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

by Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ephemeral and static IP addresses

In previous chapters, Google Cloud generated and assigned IP addresses to resources as needed. Such IP addresses are ephemeral, meaning they are bound to the lifetime of the resource they are attached to. Once that resource is destroyed (or stopped, in the case of Compute Engine instances), the IP address is freed, and will eventually be assigned to another resource.

Because ephemeral IP addresses are reclaimed and recycled, they are not dependable for directly addressing resources. In the case of external IP addresses, this is a significant concern, as those IP addresses will likely be assigned to resources belonging to another Google Cloud project. Instead, such resources should be addressed through other ...

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ISBN: 9781788837675