Step 2: Set up networking

This page applies to Apigee, but not to Apigee hybrid.

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What you're doing in this step

In this step, you configure Service Networking, which automates the private connectivity setup (using VPC Network Peering) between your network, Apigee, and Google Cloud services. For more information on VPC peering with Apigee, see Understanding peering ranges.

Perform the step

Permissions required for this task

You can give the Apigee provisioner a predefined role that includes the permissions needed to complete this task, or give more fine-grained permissions to provide the least privilege necessary. See Predefined roles and Service networking permissions.

In Step 2, the console displays a list of networking configuration options and their pre-selected default values. To view or edit any of the configuration choices, click Edit to open the Set up networking panel.

You can accept the default configuration or select the following options: In the Authorized network drop-down, select one of the following to use for peering connections with your Apigee instance:

The default VPC network created for all Google Cloud projects.

An existing VPC network in your Google Cloud project. The drop-down list includes all VPC networks in your Google Cloud project, even custom ones without peering connections. If you select a network that does not have a connection set up yet, you'll be prompted to allocate a peering range.

If prompted, choose one of these options in the Allocated peering ranges section:

Automatically allocate IP range: Choose this option if you want Google Cloud to manage the IP range for you. Two ranges are allocated, one of length /22 and one of length /28. The ranges are named as follows: google-managed-services-NETWORK_NAME-PREFIX_LENGTH. For more information and important considerations, see Understanding peering ranges.
Note: We do not recommend this option if you are using dynamic routes (such as Cloud Router) or a network from a host project.
Select one or more existing IP ranges or create a new one: Choose this option if you want to select the IP range yourself.
- From the Select or create an IP range drop-down menu, select a /21 CIDR range.
- If no IP ranges are available, click Allocate a new IP range.
  - Enter the IP range name in the available field.
  - Enter the allocated IP address range in the available field. The range must be able to hold a /21 CIDR length.
Note: If you want to select or allocate an IP range smaller than a /21 CIDR range, you can use the command-line interface, as explained in Step 4: Configure service networking.

In the Select runtime IP range section, choose one of these options:

Automatic (Recommended): Apigee automatically selects an available CIDR range with a prefix size of /22. No further action on your part is required.
Custom: Select this option if you want to specify which IP ranges Apigee should use.
Enter the custom IP ranges, one with a prefix size of /22, and one with a prefix size of /28. The ranges must be available as part of a private connection between your project and Apigee.

Click Allocate and connect.

Apigee configures the connection between the VPC and Google's services to use IP addresses within the allowed ranges. This operation may take a few minutes to complete.

Once the service networking options are configured as desired, click Next.

Go to the next step, Step 4: Configure hosting and encryption.

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Last updated 2026-06-09 UTC.