#Gcloud ssh tunnel to instance how to#

Redis Memorystore instances do not have a public IP address! Redis Memorystore offers private IP connectivity only GCP Redis Guide: Connecting to a Redis instance. Unfortunately, there is no 'One-Click-Solution' likeĪccessing MySQL Cloud SQL instances via Cloud ShellĪs always, GCP has also an extensive documentation on the various connection methods available 'locally' from your laptop via SSH Tunnel.I'll explain 2 different ways of connecting to a Redis Memorystore instance: Gcloud redis instances get-auth-string $ gcloud redis instances get-auth-string redis-instance -region=us-central1ĪuthString: 568d20ec-b0c2-40a9-908d-a5d6b6717a9cĬonnecting to a Redis Memorystore instance the AUTH string will be shown in plain text in the management UI of a redis instance.you cannot define a custom AUTH string, but it will always be an auto-generated UUID.Here are some additional things I learned about AUTH: Thus, I'll go with an in-between solution: Enable AUTH but disable in-transit encryption Though this sounds good in theory, it hasĪs well as on the maximum number of possible connections. Now, in-transit encryptionĬomes at a cost: All communication between redis and the VMs would now be encrypted. However, it is still certainly 'better than not having AUTH at all'. Also,ĪUTH does not protect your instance against any malicious entities that have access to your

AUTH does not provide security during data transportation. GCP Redis Guide: AUTH feature overview > Security and privacy,ĪUTH is not meant to be used as a security measure:ĪUTH helps you ensure that known entities in your organization do not unintentionally access and I'd like to provide some thoughts on my reasoning: When AUTH is enabled, in-transit encryption is recommended so credentials are confidential when Since this goes against GCP's own recommendation Your browser does not support the video tag.ĭuring instance creation we activated the AUTH feature but disabled the in-transitĮncryption on purpose. Take quite some time (I've experienced times from a couple of minutes to ~15 min). Once everything is configured, click the 'Create Instance' button.

Configuration > Version: Select '6.x' (which is currently the latest version)įYI: Unfortunately, there is no 'EQUIVALENT COMMAND LINE' button as it was the case when.

I recommend disabling that checkbox (see section redis AUTH and in-transit encryption)

Note: This will auto-enable the checkbox 'Enable in-transit encryption' though.

Security > Enable AUTH: Enable the checkbox.

Please make sure to pay close attention to sectionĪnd especially the video, as it shows the necessary steps to enable the 'Private service access' My MySQL Cloud SQL article for connecting via private IP. The process is exactly the same as I've explained in

CAUTION: In order to use 'Private service access' as connectivity mode, we need toĬreate a reserved IP allocation and a VPC peering with the Google Cloud Platform.

Additional Configurations > Connections: Select option 'Private service access' here as it's.

Set up connection > Network: Select the network that the VMs are located in - default in.

Tier Selection: For testing purposes, I recommend choosing the 'Basic' option (this will.

GCP Redis Guide: Creating and managing Redis instances. Is pretty straight forward and well documented in the To get started, we need to enable the following APIs: Managed via the Memorystore UI that allows us to Memorystore and provides multiple datastore technologies. The managed solution for in-memory datastores from GCP is called

Connecting to the redis instance via SSH tunnel.

Connecting to the redis instance from a Compute Instance VM.

Redis Memorystore offers private IP connectivity only.

Connecting to a Redis Memorystore instance.

As in the GCP 'primer' tutorial, thisĪrticle ends with the commands to achieve the same things also via the Is done through the Cloud Console UI and recorded as a short video as a visualĪid.

#Gcloud ssh tunnel to instance how to#

Show different ways to connect to it (locally 'from your laptop' via SSH tunnelĪnd from a VM within GCP) and finally how to delete the instance. I'll explain the basic steps to create a fresh Redis instance,