Networking Flashcards
Google Front End
Reverse proxy that protects backend Google services.
Authenticates, assures integrity, and encrypts traffic.
Once traffic passed to GFE, under purview of GCP.
What are the two network service tiers GC offers?
Premium - cold potato routing
Standard - hot potato routing
What is meant by cold potato routing?
GC will hold on to traffic within Google network for as long as possible before passing to public internet.
GC will hand off to edge POP closest to user.
Google Front End (GFE)
Reverse proxy that protects backend Google services
Default route
System-generated route that defines path for traffic that needs to leave VPC
Subnet
Logical subdivision of RFC 1918 IP space
Are VPCs and subnets global or regional resources?
VPCs are global
Subnets are regional
What’s the difference between an auto mode VPC network and custom mode VPC network?
Auto mode - default network created when you create a project. Each region automatically gets a /20 subnet.
Custom mode - does not come with any subnets or IP ranges so admin has full control to define.
What’s the difference between regions and zones?
Region is collection of zones.
Zone is isolated location within a region, typically a single data center.
What’s a useful application of network tags?
Strings that are used by FIREWALLS and ROUTES to apply to specific VM instances.
T/F: you can modify the primary IP range for your subnet.
F. You can expand the IP address range of your subnet once you’ve created, but you do so by adding an alias IP range.
Private Google Access
Allows instances without external IP addresses to access resources outside of the network from within GC services, i.e. GCS, Cloud Source Repos.
Private Service Access
Allows you to connect to Google or third-party services located on OTHER VPC NETWORKS hosted by Google or third parties.
What is the difference between Private Google Access and Private Service Access?
Private Google Access allows you to access assets/resources from outside your network via GC services.
Private Service Access allows you to access third-party services without leaving GC’s network.
Shared VPC
Allows you to connect resources from different projects to a single VPC.