How do I deploy a GCP VPC Access Connector?

In this guide, we will deploy a VPC Access Connector on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Pulumi. A VPC Access Connector allows you to connect your serverless environment to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. This is essential for enabling secure and private communication between your serverless applications and other resources within your VPC.

We will define and deploy the following resources:

• A VPC network
• A subnet within the VPC
• A VPC Access Connector

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as gcp from "@pulumi/gcp";

// Create a VPC network
const network = new gcp.compute.Network("my-network", {
    autoCreateSubnetworks: false,
});

// Create a subnet within the VPC
const subnet = new gcp.compute.Subnetwork("my-subnet", {
    network: network.id,
    ipCidrRange: "10.0.0.0/24",
    region: "us-central1",
});

// Create a VPC Access Connector
const vpcConnector = new gcp.vpcaccess.Connector("my-vpc-connector", {
    name: "my-vpc-connector",
    network: network.id,
    ipCidrRange: "10.8.0.0/28",
    region: "us-central1",
    minInstances: 2,
    maxInstances: 10,
});

export const networkName = network.name;
export const subnetName = subnet.name;
export const vpcConnectorName = vpcConnector.name;

Key Points

• We created a VPC network to provide a private network for our resources.
• We defined a subnet within the VPC with a specified IP range.
• We deployed a VPC Access Connector to enable serverless applications to connect to the VPC network.

Summary

In this guide, we successfully deployed a VPC Access Connector on GCP using Pulumi. We created a VPC network, a subnet within the VPC, and then configured the VPC Access Connector to enable secure communication between serverless applications and resources within the VPC.