Is there any way to limit access of all files in a bucket in Google Cloud Storage based on the client IP address?
I have a file stored there, which should be access only by specific IP address. How to do this?
No, there is not currently a way to do this.
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I have my google bucket connect with a load balancer and CDN enabled in google cloud, but I really don't get how google CDN working for static file, checking in the log viewer i can see the "statusDetails: response_from_cache" and "cacheHit: true" so i can say that the CDN is working properly.
Trying to issue a request for the image in my google CDN bucket from a computer located in Europe, the file return from the frontend IP address of my load balancer. Also the same IP address served my image if i make the request from a computer located in Asia.
So the same IP address was used for serving my static image ignore the location where the request coming from, checking the log viewer again, i can see that both of the request has claimed to go through google CDN, again google log viewer tell me that CDN working properly.
i think that the CDN should serve the file from the nearest server to the end-users, what is the point for using google CDN if the file always served from only 1 single IP address for all user over the world?
I have a free account of cloudflare, once i configure my DNS, the image file go through cloudflare network and if i do the test as above, i will see my static image file returned from multiple IP address which is nearest to my end-users.
Could somebody help me to understand what is the purpose for using google CDN in this case ? did i miss something in the configuration process for google CDN?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Google Cloud CDN uses Google's global edge network to serve content
closer to users and it leverages Google Cloud global external HTTP(S)
load balancers to provide routing, health checking, and Anycast IP
support. The HTTP(S) load balancing configuration specifies the
frontend IP addresses and ports on which Cloud CDN receives requests
and the backends that originate responses to those requests.
Google CDN has a special feature of ‘single anycast IP for the whole
network’ letting all contents served through the load balancer
frontend IP resulting in low latency. So rather than having one load
balancer per region, you can simplify your architecture and have
every instance behind a single global load balancer. Also it has a
feature of HTTP/2 which supports the latest HTTP protocol for faster
performance. For additional information, you can check here.
Cloud CDN reduces latency by serving assets directly at Google's
network edge. To know more about the caching using Cloud CDN, refer
to this caching-overview docs.
I have a custom domain (cdnexample.com) and a Firebase Google Cloud Storage Bucket (examplefiles.appspot.com).
I want to configure cdnexample.com domain in Cloudflare CDN to source from GCS bucket (examplefiles.appspot.com).
For example, given a GCS File: https://storage.googleapis.com/examplefiles.appspot.com/image1.jpg I want to get the Cloudflare CDN File working: https://cdnexample.com/image1.jpg
The problem is that I cannot change the GCS bucket name (examplefiles.appspot.com) to match my Cloudflare domain name (cdnexample.com). All the solutions I came across below require the GCS bucket name to match Cloudflare domain name and use CNAME configuration with c.storage.googleapis.com.
I have read through the following relevant articles:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/request-endpoints
https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/10/gcs-cloudflare-hosting/
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/using-cloudflare-cdn-https-with-google-cloud-storage/15602
How to cache google cloud storage (GCS) with cloudflare?
Using Cloudflare CDN + HTTPS with Google Cloud Storage
Use CloudFlare to CDN a Google Cloud Storage Bucket
https://medium.com/#pablo.delvalle.cr/cloudflare-and-google-cloud-for-hosting-a-static-site-fd2e1a97aa9b
Does anyone have an idea of how to make the Cloudflare CDN work in this case?
In this case you can set up a load balancer with backend bucket which will connect your storage bucket and can be accessed with an IP address, later you point the IP address in your custom domain. you can find the below information about adding a backend bucket here
I have a requirement to download some files stored in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. The challenge is to download it without internet access. Is possible to interact with a Bucket without Internet access? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Prasanth
No, it wouldn't be possible. You need internet connection to access resources hosted in the Cloud.
You would need to store the files locally or on a physical data storage device in order to access them without the connection.
The only possible option to not use "internet" is to use Dedicated Interconnect where basically you will have a cable from your on-premise to Google's network.
EDIT:
As I understand from the comment you edited, your actual goal is to connect to your GCS bucket from a private VM instance hosted on GCE.
For that you might want to use VPC Service Controls to define the security perimeter around your services and constrain data within a VPC. One of this product's advantages is that the VPC Service Controls provides an additional layer of security by denying access from unauthorized networks, even if the data is exposed by misconfigured Cloud IAM policies.
Here you can find the GCP documentation on configuring VPC Service Controls.
I'd like to use fortrabbit with Google Cloud SQL. Google's Cloud SQL requires to whitelist any IPs that want to access the db, and it seems that fort rabbit doesn't guarantee the outbound IP? How can I access my Cloud SQL data from fortrabbit?
[edit] Cloud SQL does not support whitelisting all IP's like 0.0.0.0. Having said that, it's enough if you can provide a subnet that can catch all the IP's from which your connections can possibly originate from. If you provide a broad IP range for the authorized subnet, please make sure your database is protected with strong user-name and passwords to protect from unauthorized access.
My domain is rather long. I need to use it without www.
All the info I find on the net is about cnames.
How do I redirect the whole domain to an amazon s3 bucket, not only a subdomain?
Amazon recently announced support for root domain hosting via S3. The instructions for setting this up can be found here. Note that you will have to setup two buckets to accomplish this, and that you will have to use Route 53 for your DNS hosting.
Try wwwizer
What you need to do is to create a cname www pointing to your s3 bucket url (bucket name will need to match) and then create an A record to the ip given by wwwizer.
Another way is to use a url redirecting service or use a free web host (like godaddy's ad supported hosting) and on the index file issue a redirect to www.yourdomain.com.
There might be other solutions that rely on finding out the ips of the amazon s3 front end servers but they are error prone.