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Abiquo has introduced a new an integration with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). For a summary of the GCP features supported, please see Google Cloud Platform and more features will be introduced in coming releasesfeatures table.
Display Billing Data
Abiquo displays the billing data from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on the Hybrid dashboard. See Display Google Cloud Platform billing data
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When you add the first set of credentials, the platform will onboard the hardware profiles from GCP. GCP has some common families and types with the other providers, but there may be some gaps in the families and types. When users create VMs, the platform displays only the available families and types for selection.
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GCP entity naming conventions
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VM template catalog
When you have created a public cloud region, you can onboard VM templates for your users into the self-service Catalogue.
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The GCP integration supports static external IPs and ephemeral external IPs. By default, for public IPs, users create static external IP, users create a public IP with Abiquo's Google Cloud Platform integration, it is a static external IP. Abiquo can onboard ephemeral external IPs as ephemeral public IPs. When the user undeploys a VM, the provider will delete the ephemeral public IP addresses.
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Firewall policies
Abiquo 5.4 introduces Firewall policies for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Abiquo firewall policies are GCP Firewall rules and they belong to VPC networks (Abiquo global networks), so administrators can manage firewalls in the myCloud → Global view. After administrators onboard global networks from GCP, they can onboard firewalls too. Abiquo also enables users to assign firewalls to virtual datacenters, so administrators can recommend firewalls and set a default firewall for a virtual datacenter.
The first version of the GCP integration does integration did not allow the user to manage firewall polices . To enable the user to have remote access to their VMs via SSH and RDP (ports 22 and 3389 respectively), the platform will automatically manage and it automatically managed a firewall rule for each global network. By default the rule will be was called "abq-fw-ssh-rdp-" + the SHA1 encryption of the global network name. The platform will check for the default rule when the user onboards, synchronizes, or creates a global network, and create a rule if none exists The GCP integration may onboard these rules from previous versions.
Users can create a firewall policy in the myCloud view in Virtual datacenters or in the Global view, which requires the privilege to Manage global networks. Users should be aware of the limitations on firewall names as for other entities in GCP. See GCP entity naming conventions. Users must select a firewall direction (incoming or outgoing) and enter a source or target in CIDR format. Users must also select allow or deny for the firewall type. Users must enter a priority, and for a higher priority, users should enter a lower number. There is no default in Abiquo but in GCP the default is 1000. Users can also enable Firewall rule logging in GCP. See Create a firewall policy in GCP.
When users configure a VM, if they have the privilege to Assign firewalls to virtual machines, the platform displays all the tenant's GCP firewall policies that are managed by Abiquo. So the user experience here is very similar to the user experience in other public cloud providers. If users do not have the privilege to Assign firewalls to virtual machines, then Abiquo will enforce the default firewall.
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Volumes
The GCP integration supports external storage volumes, which are zonal persistent disks. For more details, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#disk-types. . Users must select an Availability zone for the volume and then add their VM to the same zone. As always, when users edit VMs, they can go to the Storage tab and drag volumes into the VM.
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On the Bootstrap tab, users can add scripts that are compatible with cloud-init.
VM variables
The startup scripts can use variables that the users add on the Variables tab.
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On the Monitoring tab the platform displays the metrics available in Google Cloud Platform and users can select the metrics to display. For more details, see Display VM metrics. By default, Abiquo gets metrics from Google Cloud Platform every 5 minutes.
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Remote access to VMs
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