APIs and reference

This page describes Google Cloud resources relevant to Network Service Tiers. For procedures and examples, see Using Network Service Tiers.

The Network Service Tiers APIs and gcloud commands are part of Compute Engine.

gcloud CLI and API reference

Addresses

Used to create, edit, and manage internal and external IP address resources that can be assigned to virtual machine (VM) instances and forwarding rules for load balancers. Internal IP addresses and global external IP addresses are always Premium Tier. Regional external IP addresses can use either Standard or Premium Tier.

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Forwarding rules

Used to create, edit, and manage forwarding rules in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. Forwarding rules with a load balancing scheme of EXTERNAL define paths for sending traffic from outside your VPC network to a load balancer or VM instances in your VPC network.

External forwarding rules can be either global or regional. Global external forwarding rules are always Premium Tier. Regional external forwarding rules can use either Standard or Premium Tier.

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Instances

Used to create and modify VM instances in your VPC network.

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Instance templates

Used to create and modify instance templates. Instance templates are used by managed instance groups. Instance groups are one type of backend for load balancers.

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Projects

Used to set the default network tier to apply to resources in a project. This default can be overridden on a resource-by-resource basis.

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