Reserve the IP Addresses

A Google Cloud deployment requires one public IP address for the NAT Gateway.

The following command reserves one or multiple IP addresses:

gcloud compute addresses create <NAME1> <NAME2>  

Where:

<NAME1> <NAME2> are the names of the addresses to be created (using a single <NAME> will create a single IP with the command)

In the following example command and output, two IP addresses are created with a single command:

gcloud compute addresses create gcp-arcsight-test-nat-ip --region=us-central1

Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/security-arcsight-nonprod/regions/us-central1/addresses/gcp-arcsight-test-nat-ip].

 

Obtain detailed information for the Google Cloud worksheet

Once the IPs have been created, run the following command for each of them to obtain detailed information about them:

gcloud compute addresses describe <NAME>

Example command and output:

gcloud compute addresses describe gcp-arcsight-test-nat-ip

address: 34.122.212.89
addressType: EXTERNAL
creationTimestamp: '2023-07-21T10:38:15.973-07:00'
description: ''
id: '4798166161442700392'
kind: compute#address
labelFingerprint: 42WmSpB8rSM=
name: gcp-arcsight-test-nat-ip
networkTier: PREMIUM
region: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/security-arcsight-nonprod/regions/us-central1
selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/security-arcsight-nonprod/regions/us-central1/addresses/gcp-arcsight-test-nat-ip
status: IN_USE
users:
- https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/security-arcsight-nonprod/regions/us-central1/routers/gcp-arcsight-test-router