Introduction to Google Cloud NAT

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 49 seconds
Students: 1,449
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Learn how you can connect your VMs and GKE clusters to the internet without opening them up to outside attack. Google Cloud NAT makes it easy to create outbound connections to the internet without needing an external IP address.

Learning Objectives

  • What is Google Cloud NAT
  • How to connect a VM to the internet using NAT
  • How to enable NAT logging and monitoring

Intended Audience

  • GCP Network Engineers
  • GCP Security Engineers
  • Anyone preparing for a Google Cloud certification (such as the Professional Data Engineer exam)

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge about networking and TCP/IP
  • Access to a Google Cloud Platform account