Google Cloud VPC Network Peering to Connect Two VMs and Check Nginx Server Access.

Description

Explore hands-on VPC network peering within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We'll create separate VPCs in different regions, set up VMs in each VPC, and deploy an Nginx server. And then, we will establish a connection between two VMs using VPC network peering.

Overview Diagram

Prerequisites

• Google Cloud Platform(GCP) account or playground.
• Knowledge about VPC, VM instance, Subnet, Network interface.

Hands On:

Create Two VPCs:

Creating vpc-1

Creating vpc-2

Now we can see the vpc-1 and vpc-2 are in the list.

Create Two VMs:

Creating vm-1

Creating vm-2

Now we can see the vm-1 and vm-2 list.

Peering Two VPC:

Peering vpc-1 to vpc-2

Peering vpc-2 to vpc-1

Now we can see the two active network peering.

Check Connection:

Now if we try to connect from vm-1 to the vm-2, it will be connected now.

Ping from vpc-1 to vpc-2

Create Nginx at One VM And Access From Others:

Here we will install nginx at vm-1 and will try to access from vm-2.

• At vm-1 terminal, use the following command.

  To update app:

  sudo apt update -y

  To install nginx:

  sudo apt install nginx

  To check nginx service status::

  systemctl status nginx

  We will get the output like:

• Now we will try to access from vm-2 terminal:

  curl http://34.75.68.89

  We will get the output like:

And Finally we have got the nginx server response from vm-1 to vm-2.