vDiscovery for GCP

Infoblox vDiscovery provides enhanced visibility of your networks and virtual machines, and automatic creation of DNS records for discovered IP addresses.

With Infoblox vDiscovery, you will find an easy to deploy and cost-effective solution that enables visibility, reporting and automation of your network and VM resources across multiple cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, bringing all this data under a single pane of glass. In this guide, you will be introduced to Infoblox vDiscovery for GCP.

Beginning with NIOS 9.0.4, vDiscovery for GCP can be configured to discover multiple projects in a single vDiscovery job and to discover shared VPCs and resources connected to them in service projects. Refer to the Installation Guide for vNIOS for GCP for configuration of multi-project and shared VPC vDiscovery.

Prerequisites

The following are prerequisites for Infoblox vDiscovery with GCP:

• Valid subscription and login to GCP.

• Ability to create (or obtain) the key for a service account.

• TCP port 443 access from the Infoblox appliance that will run vDiscovery.

• Be able to resolve and access common resources from the Infoblox appliance that will run vDiscovery, such as:

  • accounts.google.com

  • oauth2.googleapis.com

  • www.googleapis.com

  • gserviceaccount.com

Note: The Cloud Network Automation (CNA) license in NIOS is optional.

Basic Workflow

The following bullet points outline the basic steps involved with creating a vDiscovery task for GCP:

• Sign in to the GCP Console (https://console.cloud.google.com/).

• Create/review your service account that will be used by vDiscovery and verify that the appropriate role(s) is assigned.

• Generate/obtain the key for the service account that will be used by vDiscovery.

• In NIOS, navigate to either the Data Management or Cloud tab.

• Create the vDiscovery task.

• Run the vDiscovery task.