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Google Cloud Platform Integration

Owned by Sri Raghu
Last updated: Sept 08, 2024
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services offered by Google, providing scalable and flexible solutions for compute, storage, networking, big data, machine learning, and application development. It includes services like Compute Engine for virtual machines, Kubernetes Engine for container orchestration, and BigQuery for data analytics, all running on Google's highly reliable infrastructure. GCP emphasizes security with robust tools for identity management and data protection, and it supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Designed to cater to businesses of all sizes, GCP enables users to innovate and scale efficiently.

Universal DDI provides the capability for synchronizing and integrating public-hosted zones with GCP, and this allows users to view and manage GCP DNS data through the Infoblox Portal. Also, NIOS-X Servers can be configured to service zones that have been synchronized from GCP. For more information about GCP, refer to the GCP documentation.

The Infoblox GCP integration feature offers the following:

  • Two-way synchronization of public zones and records between GCP and Universal DDI after the initial configuration and sync is complete. Synchronization of GCP DNS resource records configured with a simple routing policy is supported. Other routing policies are not supported. Synchronization of DNSSEC records is not supported.

  • One-way synchronization of private zones from GCP to Universal DDI. The synchronized zones are read-only.

  • Viewing and management of GCP-hosted zones and records through the Infoblox Infoblox Portal.

  • A NIOS-X Server can directly respond to DNS queries from clients for private zones that are managed in GCP. A NIOS-X Server can be configured as a secondary DNS server for local clients thereby reducing the network load since the queries do not need to recurse to GCP. 

The following diagram illustrates how to leverage the GCP integration feature. In an architecture that consists of on-premise networks and an GCP public cloud, NIOS-X Servers can be configured to service zones that have been synchronized from GCP. DNS data synchronized from GCP is transferred from the Infoblox Portal to NIOS-X Servers. DNS clients in the enterprise data center can then send queries for GCP–integrated zones to the NIOS-X Servers. 

To integrate GCP with Universal DDI, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to Configure > Administration > Credentials, and configure GCP credentials. For more information, see Creating GCP Credentials.

  2. Go to Configure > Networking > Discovery > Cloud, and configure GCP. For more information, see Configuring Network Discovery.

  3. Go to Configure > Networking > DNS > Zones > Edit Zone, and add an NIOS-X Server to GCP-synced zones. This step is optional. You can add a NIOS-X Server to a primary zone or a secondary zone. You can edit the primary zone or secondary zone and add the NIOS-X Server as an Authoritative DNS Server or add the NIOS-X Server to a DNS Server Group, and add the group to the primary zone or secondary zone. For more information, see Creating a Primary Zone or Creating a Secondary Zone.

 

You can configure the following: