Connecting from Google Cloud

If you are using your own Google Cloud account, you can use Google Cloud's Private Service Connect to publish services using internal IP addresses in your VPC network. Private Service Connect is a network interface that securely connects a private IP address from your Google Cloud VPC to an external service. You grant access only to a single cluster instead of the entire BigAnimal resource VPC, thus ensuring maximum network isolation.

Private Service Connect provides two methods to connect to published services: using endpoints or load balancers (also referred to as Private Service Connect backends). We provide step-by-step directions in the knowledge base for the method using load balancers (see Connect to BigAnimal private cluster using GCP Private Service Connect). Private Service Connect backends use a load balancer configured with Private Service Connect network endpoint group (NEG) backends. For more information, see About Private Service Connect backends and Create a Private Service Connect backend.

While we recommend using Private Service Connect when using your own Google Cloud account, another option is VPC peering. See VPC peering for more information.