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Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in…

The correct answer is B. Create a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name. Cloud DNS offers DNS forwarding zones and DNS server policies to allow lookups of DNS names between your on-premises and Google Cloud environment. You have multiple options for configuring DNS forwarding. The following section lists best practices for hybrid DNS setup. These…

Submitted by helene.fr· Mar 30, 2026Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Question

Your company has embraced a hybrid cloud strategy where some of the applications are deployed on Google Cloud. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel connects your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud with your company's on-premises network. Multiple applications in Google Cloud need to connect to an on-premises database server, and you want to avoid having to change the IP configuration in all of your applications when the IP of the database changes. What should you do?

Options

  • AConfigure Cloud NAT for all subnets of your VPC to be used when egressing from the VM
  • BCreate a private zone on Cloud DNS, and configure the applications with the DNS name.
  • CConfigure the IP of the database as custom metadata for each instance,
  • DQuery the Compute Engine internal DNS from the applications to retrieve the IP of the database.

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    7% (3)
  • B
    80% (35)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    11% (5)

Explanation

Cloud DNS offers DNS forwarding zones and DNS server policies to allow lookups of DNS names between your on-premises and Google Cloud environment. You have multiple options for configuring DNS forwarding. The following section lists best practices for hybrid DNS setup. These best practices are illustrated in the Reference architectures for hybrid DNS. https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/best- practices#best_practices_for_dns_forwarding_zones_and_server_policies

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#Cloud DNS#private zone#hybrid cloud#VPN

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