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GCP Compute Global Address

A Google Cloud Compute Global Address is a reserved, static IPv4 or IPv6 address that is routable from every Google Cloud region. Global addresses are most frequently used by globally-distributed services such as Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Run, or to provide a single anycast endpoint for multi-region deployments. They can be either external (public) or internal; internal global addresses are allocated within, and therefore tied to, a specific VPC network.
Official documentation: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/globalAddresses/get

Terrafrom Mappings:

  • google_compute_global_address.name

Supported Methods​

  • GET: Get a gcp-compute-global-address by its "name"
  • LIST: List all gcp-compute-global-address
  • SEARCH

gcp-compute-network​

A global address that is marked as internal belongs to a single VPC network. Overmind records that relationship so you can trace from the address back to the network to understand reachability and the blast radius of changes within that VPC.

ip​

Each global address reserves one or more IPs. Overmind exposes these as individual ip items, allowing you to see where a particular IP is used across your estate and to detect potential conflicts or overlaps.