Discover and Publish Resources hosted in Google Cloud Platform

  • Updated on Apr 19, 2023

This article describes features - Discover and Publish IaaS Resources - that are currently in early preview. Breaking changes may occur as updates are made. Contact your account team to enable these features for your organization.

Overview

Banyan automatically discovers Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources that need to be accessed by your end users. You can then publish these discovered resources as Banyan services.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding through the steps below, ensure you have installed and configured the Python clients needed to interact with the Banyan and GCP APIs.

See the pybanyan docs for detailed instructions for GCP.

Run the test-gcp subcommand to ensure you’re correctly authenticated and authorized.

$> banyan cloud-resource test-gcp {gcp-project}
--> Google Cloud configuration test passed. Found 12 resources.

Steps

At a high level, you will:

Step 1. Label your resources in GCP

In the GCP portal, add labels to the resources you need to discovered by Banyan. For this guide, we use the label banyan_discovery to tag resources that should be discovered by Banyan, but you can use any label for this purpose.

In the GCP console, use the Filter option to list the resources you have tagged.

Step 2. Sync resources into Banyan

Now that your resources are tagged for discovery, use the pybanyan sync-azure subcommand to get the resource metadata from GCP and submit them via the Banyan API.

$> banyan cloud-resource sync-gcp all {gcp-project-group} --tag_name banyan_discovery

--> Getting list of GCP VM resources:

type                  id  name              public_dns_name    public_ip       private_dns_name    private_ip    ports    provider    account    region        tags
------  ----------------  ----------------  -----------------  --------------  ------------------  ------------  -------  ----------  ---------  ----------  ------
vm      5624267940818835  at-tdupnsan                          35.197.123.119                      10.138.0.51   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       0
vm      1485283806815641  gke-tdteam0-gcp-                                                         10.138.3.74   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       1
vm      5476031966784304  gke-tdteam0-gcp-                                                         10.138.3.73   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       1
vm      3945933075325562  tdshield0-router                     35.227.149.143                      10.138.0.36   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       0
vm      3843061320042611  windows-server-2                     34.82.129.0                         10.138.3.77   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-b       0


--> Filtering for new GCP resources:

type                  id  name              public_dns_name    public_ip       private_dns_name    private_ip    ports    provider    account    region        tags
------  ----------------  ----------------  -----------------  --------------  ------------------  ------------  -------  ----------  ---------  ----------  ------
vm      5624267940818835  at-tdupnsan                          35.197.123.119                      10.138.0.51   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       0
vm      1485283806815641  gke-tdteam0-gcp-                                                         10.138.3.74   []       gcp         tdnovpn    us-west1-a       1


--> Syncing into Banyan Cloud Resource inventory:

--> Sync with GCP successful.

You can specify the resource_type to be all or a specific supported resource_type - VM, LB, etc. Check pybanyan help for additional filtering options.

Step 3. Select discovered resources to publish

Once your cloud resources are synchronized, you will be able to view them in the Manage Services > Discovered Resources > Inventory section in the Banyan Command Center.

Select an individual resource to see more details, such as Private IP Address, Ports and Tags.

Step 4. Publish services

Click on the Publish icon to publish a Banyan service from of this discovered resource.

Select the type of service you wish to create, populate the required fields - such as service domain, access tier, etc - and attach a policy.


Congrats! You have discovered your GCP resources and published them for your end-users. You can repeat this process as often as you need.


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