I am quite confused as to how to connect my company's internet with GCP through VPN. My main question is, where do I get my VPN Gateway?
I am not an admin, so what tasks would require admin permissions?
Does anyone know what prerequisites I must complete before being able to set up this VPN?
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I want to connect aws vpc and bigquery in gcp using aws transit gateway.
I would like to know how to connect using gcp's Private Google Access.
If there is another way, please let me know.
thank you.
I created Private Google Access, but how do I connect it with bigquery?
As #jarmod mentioned in comments,
You may be better off creating some form of query API server inside the Google Cloud VPC that can talk privately to BigQuery and then have clients from the AWS VPC make requests to that API over the VPN tunnel.
As of now, this is the best practice.
Posting the answer as community wiki for the benefit of the community that might encounter this use case in the future.
Feel free to edit this answer for additional information.
We are moving from AWS to the GCP. I used Client VPN Endpoint in AWS to get into the VPC network in the AWS. What is the alternative in GCP which I can quickly setup and get my laptop into the VPC network? If there is no exact alternative, what's the closest one and please provide instructions to set it up.
AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables you to securely access your AWS resources and resources in your on-premises network. With Client VPN, you can access your resources from any location using an OpenVPN-based VPN client.
Currently there is no managed product available on GCP to allow VPN connections from multiple clients to directly access resources within a VPC as Cloud VPN only supports site-to-site connectivity, however there is an existing Feature Request for this.
As an alternative a Compute Engine Instance can be used instead with OpenVPN server manually installed and configured following the OpenVPN documentation, however this would be a self managed solution.
I run some web services running in Google Compute Engine. I want to secure them and make available only to my coallegues. I don't want to rely on web server security, so my idea was to configure a VPN with Google Cloud Platform.
My question may be silly, because I don't really know how VPN works. Is it possible to create a VPN in Google Cloud and connect to it directly from my laptop? I've tried to use "Hybrid Connectivity VPN" - but it allows only to connect to another VPN. When I make a tunnel, it asks me "Remote peer IP address". I don't have any on-premise VPN in my organization, also I am behind a NAT of my provider.
I know that that it could be possible in principle - once I've connected to VPN of my previous job. I've just used build-in Windows function "Add a VPN connection", inputed IP of the server and the secret. After that I could connect to the servers that were inside the corporate network.
Can I configure Google Cloud VPN to work in similar way?
Client-to-gateway(road warrior) setup is not supported by CloudVPN. For client-to-gateway scenarios, you can install and configure an IPSec VPN software, like Strongswan on a GCE VM and configure it for remote access. Users can than connect to this VPN server through VPN client and, after a secure tunnel established they can connect to all other VMs which are deployed inside the same network. With this setup, you can also configure NAT gateway and remove the public IP from other VMs. Configuring a NAT gateway is described in this article.
https://serverfault.com/questions/818101/does-gcp-support-p2s
I want to connect my default network to the internet using a VPN and I don't want to use OpenVPN for that. I ask if it is possible to connect using a VPN Gateway (GCP), but, I'm found that VPN is used to connect to other VPN networks.
Could Google VPN be used as a real VPN?
Could Google VPN be used as a real VPN?
Assuming that you mean you would like to connect to Google Cloud VPN using client software running on your desktop, the answer is No.
Google Cloud VPN is used for site-to-site VPNs, and not for client-to-site.
You will need to use a third party product such as OpenVPN to provide client-to-site VPN connectivity.
FYI: OpenVPN is a very good product.
One of the questions in a AWS practice exam is as below:
You are a solutions architect who has moved to a manufacturing company who has very legacy applications. One of these applications needs to communicate with services which are currently hosted on premise. The people who wrote this application have left the company and there is nothing to document how the application works. You need to ensure that this application can be hosted in a bespoke VPC but still be able to communicate to the back end services which are hosted on premise. Which of the three answers below will allow the application to communicate back to the on premise equipment without the need to reprogram the application?
And one of the correct answer was indicated to be:
You should ensure the VPC has an internet gateway attached to it so that you can establish a site to site VPN with the on premise environment.
From the VPC faq, my understanding is you do not need internet gateway for VPN to work.
From VPC FAQ
Q. How does a hardware VPN connection work with Amazon VPC?
A hardware VPN connection connects your VPC to your datacenter. Amazon supports Internet Protocol security (IPsec) VPN connections. Data transferred between your VPC and datacenter routes over an encrypted VPN connection to help maintain the confidentiality and integrity of data in transit. An Internet gateway is not required to establish a hardware VPN connection.
Anyone have experience with VPN on AWS, please clarify.
THIS QUESTION DOES NOT LACKS RESEARCH
It appears that discussions about this question can also be found at:
A Cloud Guru: Internet Gateway vs Virtual Private Gateway
A Cloud Guru: VPC - Internet Gateway for a Site to Site VPN? - Correct Answer?
A Cloud Guru: Direct Connect question
The question apparently asks for 3 correct answers out of 5. The question is badly written and does not have a correct set of answers.
The connection would need to be either via AWS Direct Connect or a VPN Connection, both of which connect to an Amazon VPC via a Virtual Private Gateway rather than an Internet Gateway.
It would be possible to establish a Software VPN connection back to on-premise, which would require software configuration, an Internet Gateway and a Public IP address (for the Software VPN). However, the provided answers make no mention of a Software VPN.