Can I get the external IP of compute engine instance point to a custom domain name that I own ?
I've found a number of links of accomplishing it with App Engine and therefore, presently I'm thinking of calling the Compute Engine from App Engine. Kindly share your thoughts about this solution as well
You have to create an extenal static IP adress and use it in your own domain DNS setup.
Docs: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/instances-and-network#externaladdresses
Docs: You can assign an optional externally visible IP address to specific instances. Outside callers can address a specific instance by external IP if the network firewalls allow it. Only instances with an external address can send and receive traffic from outside the network.
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I have a server hosted on app engine. I need to call an API from it with a static outbound IP. I followed step-by-step the following guide https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/outbound-ip-addresses#static-ip
Now, I do not quite get how to configure the cloud NAT in order to call the external API through my static outbound IP (external IP address). I guess, I should call a local VPC address from my server and configure somewhere the API IP it should redirect to.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Paul
If you configured everything per the doc you linked in your question, then you don't need to do anything special from within your AppEngine application. Setting the Serverless VPC Access egress_setting to all-traffic means that anytime your AppEngine app tries to call an external address, it will be routed this way and will use the static IP configured as part of the setup.
I have very serious question that my App Engine instance’s IP changed automatically with specific time interval. So my live application stops working. Can you please help so that we can make it working again.
Right now to solve this issue we have to change IP every time & set in SQL database also manually which is not proper way to do that.
Thanks in advance.
From the Google App Engine FAQ and as mentioned in the comments
Static IP Addresses and App Engine apps
App Engine does not currently
provide a way to map static IP addresses to an application. In order
to optimize the network path between an end user and an App Engine
application, end users on different ISPs or geographic locations might
use different IP addresses to access the same App Engine application.
DNS might return different IP addresses to access App Engine over time
or from different network locations.
Outbound services, such as the URL Fetch, Sockets and Mail APIs, make
use of a large pool of IP addresses. The IP address ranges in this
pool are subject to routine changes. In fact, two sequential API calls
from the same application may appear to originate from two different
IP addresses.
Solution: Set SQl instance network IP as : 0.0.0.0/0
They above IP called as none IP means your instance accessible by any IP
As an update to Scott's answer addressing how to get a static IP address (inbound or outbound) for App Engine can be found in my recent (2021) answer from a related question. Yes, it's not available directly from the App Engine service itself, but it's possible with other "GCP infrastructure." (BTW [by the way], that FAQ knowledge base has been deprecated, so you'll be redirected elsewhere if you click that link.)
I am new to Google Cloud Platform and trying to understand it. I have launched a compute engine and have installed a web application. I can access that application using External IP address of the engine or with private IP address from within the VPC.
How can I refer to them with any kind of name?
Just like AWS has this concept of having a name for each instance as ec2-54-54-54-54.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com. So, I can use this name in my browser and with some DNS, this name will be resolved to actual IP address.
Possible duplicate of Where can i find the name servers of Google Compute Engine.
But the answer is that Google Cloud Platform does not provide default public DNS for external IP addresses.
You will need to use Cloud DNS or another service or leverage an external service like xip-io which will map any IP to a DNS name.
So I've deployed a web server as a VM instance on a google app engine. It's running and I can get to it through the ephemeral ip address. Now I want to point a domain name I have to that VM instance and I am hitting the wall here.
I added a custom domain, but the DNS entry it's injecting is with externally visible IP, which is different from the ephemeral IP of the VM.
My question is, how can I forward all the requests to my web-server running in a VM instance?
In order to send all requests to your custom domain to your web server running in any Google Compute Engine VM instance (including Managed VMs), you need to add some records to the name servers (NS, or DNS) where your domain is being served out of.
You require a DNS A-record, which has two parts: a prefix (sub-domain), and an IP address.
In case you wish to forward your whole domain (including all sub domains, i.e. *.bar.com) to your VM, you need to specify the domain itself (depending on your DNS provider, usually referred to as #, or blank field) as the prefix / sub-domain, followed by your VM's external IP address (ephemeral or static).
In case you wish to only direct a sub-domain of yours (i.e. foo.bar.com) to the web-hosting instance, the prefix / sub-domain part of the A record has to contain said sub-domain.
Our site is hosted on Google App Engine which means we do not have a server farm with dedicated IP addresses that can be contacted “directly”. It is an elastic farm that spins up with load.
But our client is looking for static ips to route it through firewall and provide suitable access for this site:
"Proxy does not support any voice and video, hence I have to know all the Ip used for this portals so that I can route this via Firewall."
Is there anyway to list all the IP used for a site hosted on Google App engine?
regards,
Kanchan
The best you can achieve is this:
App Engine's current range of outgoing IP addresses are encoded in the
sender policy framework (SPF) record of
_cloud-netblocks.googleusercontent.com. You may need to recursively perform DNS SPF lookups to resolve the entire list of IP ranges. Start
by resolving _cloud-netblocks.googleusercontent.com
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/general#static-ip
You could of course do it the other way round and only allow access to your application from a specific IP range.
Trying to keep track of GAE ip addresses is not a very good idea. They will most likely change over time without any announcements or heads ups.
You will be better of with a proxy. This project https://github.com/TellusTalk/Node_Proxy is one way to accomplish this.