How to use GCP Private Service Connect with CockroachDB

Description

Need to increase network security control? In CockroachDB 24.1, we added support for GCP Private Service Connect (Now in Preview). This allows you to selectively expose services, which is in contrast to VPC peering, whereby everything in each of the peer VPCs is able to interact with everything in the other. In this video, Cockroach Labs Technical Evangelist Rob Reid walks through how to configure Google Cloud Platform's Private Service Connect to connect to CockroachDB from your VPC. How to use GCP Private Service Connect with CockroachDB 00:00 VPC Peering vs GCP Private Service Connect 00:33 Exporting environment variables 01:04 How to connect CockroachDB to GCP's service connect 01:36 Connecting endpoints from GCP's console 02:05 Accepting the connection from CockroachDB 02:31 Creating a VM in GCP on the VPC network and connecting 03:05 Why this feature matters #Googlecloud #GCP #VPC #networksecurity