Packet Mirroring

NetworkingGCP

General

General information about the service.

Description

Packet Mirroring clones the traffic of specified instances in your VPC network and forwards it for examination. It is useful for network security monitoring and troubleshooting.

Service ID

compute.googleapis.com

Resource Pattern

projects/{project}/regions/{region}/packetMirrorings/{mirroring}

References

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Naming Convention

pm-{workload}-{env}

Length

1-63

Valid Characters

Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens

Scope

regional

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "google_compute_packet_mirroring" "main" {
2  name   = "pm-${var.workload}-${var.environment}"
3  region = var.region
4  network {
5    url = google_compute_network.main.id
6  }
7  collector_ilb {
8    url = google_compute_forwarding_rule.collector.id
9  }
10  mirrored_resources {
11    subnetworks {
12      url = google_compute_subnetwork.main.id
13    }
14  }
15}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

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