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Networking best practices

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Networking best practices

- [Instructor] One of the best practices you can take when designing your Google Cloud VPC is to keep your network design simple and consistent. This way, you can ensure your environment is manageable, reliable, and well understood by everyone necessary. Make sure you're using clear naming conventions when creating your networking resources. This way, all administrators and end users understand what they're looking at. Common clear naming convention best practices include commonly accepted abbreviations and familiar terminology, your company name, business unit, application, region, and even environment status helps identify the purpose of a resource at a quick glance. Another great tip is to utilize custom networks instead of relying on the default ones. When you start your first project in Google Cloud, you're always given an auto mode default network. While great to get you started on the platform, it is best practice to customize your own VPC network for production environments…

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