» google_compute_global_address

Represents a Global Address resource. Global addresses are used for HTTP(S) load balancing.

To get more information about GlobalAddress, see:

• API documentation
• How-to Guides
  • Reserving a Static External IP Address

» Example Usage - Global Address Basic

resource "google_compute_global_address" "default" {
  name = "global-appserver-ip"
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• name - (Required) Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

• address - (Optional) The IP address or beginning of the address range represented by this resource. This can be supplied as an input to reserve a specific address or omitted to allow GCP to choose a valid one for you.

• description - (Optional) An optional description of this resource.

• ip_version - (Optional) The IP Version that will be used by this address. Valid options are IPV4 or IPV6. The default value is IPV4.

• address_type - (Optional) The type of the address to reserve, default is EXTERNAL.

  • EXTERNAL indicates public/external single IP address.
  • INTERNAL indicates internal IP ranges belonging to some network.

• project - (Optional) The ID of the project in which the resource belongs. If it is not provided, the provider project is used.

» Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:

• creation_timestamp - Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
• self_link - The URI of the created resource.

» Timeouts

This resource provides the following Timeouts configuration options:

• create - Default is 4 minutes.
• delete - Default is 4 minutes.

» Import

GlobalAddress can be imported using any of these accepted formats:

$ terraform import google_compute_global_address.default projects/{{project}}/global/addresses/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_global_address.default {{project}}/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_global_address.default {{name}}