Shared VPC concept in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Setting Up a Shared VPC in Google Cloud

📖 Scenario: You work for a company that wants to centralize network management. The company uses Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and wants to set up a Shared VPC. This allows one project to host the network resources, while other projects can use the network securely.Your task is to create a Shared VPC host project, enable Shared VPC, and attach a service project to it.

🎯 Goal: Build a Shared VPC setup in GCP by creating a host project with a VPC network, enabling Shared VPC on it, and attaching a service project to use the shared network.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a host project with a VPC network named shared-vpc-network

Enable Shared VPC on the host project

Create a service project

Attach the service project to the host project as a Shared VPC service project

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Many companies use Shared VPC to centralize network management and improve security by separating network resources from workloads.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and network administrators often set up Shared VPCs to manage large cloud environments efficiently.

1

Create the host project and VPC network

Create a GCP project called host-project and inside it create a VPC network named shared-vpc-network with automatic subnet creation disabled.

GCP

# Your code here to create host project and VPC network

Need a hint?

Use gcloud projects create to create the project and gcloud compute networks create with --subnet-mode=custom to create the VPC network.

2

Enable Shared VPC on the host project

Enable Shared VPC on the host-project by associating the shared-vpc-network as a Shared VPC network.

GCP

gcloud projects create host-project --name="Host Project"
gcloud config set project host-project
gcloud compute networks create shared-vpc-network --subnet-mode=custom
# Your code here to enable Shared VPC on host-project

Need a hint?

Use gcloud compute shared-vpc enable host-project to enable Shared VPC on the host project.

3

Create the service project

Create a GCP project called service-project that will use the Shared VPC network from the host project.

GCP

gcloud projects create host-project --name="Host Project"
gcloud config set project host-project
gcloud compute networks create shared-vpc-network --subnet-mode=custom
gcloud compute shared-vpc enable host-project
# Your code here to create service-project

Need a hint?

Use gcloud projects create service-project to create the service project.

4

Attach the service project to the Shared VPC host project

Attach the service-project to the host-project as a Shared VPC service project so it can use the shared-vpc-network.

GCP

gcloud projects create host-project --name="Host Project"
gcloud config set project host-project
gcloud compute networks create shared-vpc-network --subnet-mode=custom
gcloud compute shared-vpc enable host-project
gcloud projects create service-project --name="Service Project"
# Your code here to attach service-project to host-project as Shared VPC service project

Need a hint?

Use gcloud compute shared-vpc associated-projects add service-project --host-project=host-project to attach the service project.