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Ephemeral and Static IP Addresses

Explore the differences between ephemeral and static IP addresses and how to switch from a dynamic to a static IP for your virtual machine. Understand why static IPs are essential for consistent web access, and learn how to link a static IP to your domain name for reliable website publishing.

With our firewall rule in place and the application running on the VM, we have to check the external IP of our VM server:

We can now access our website from anywhere on the internet using 35.196.64.74. Try it out yourself.

And there we have it! We have successfully deployed an application on GCP. However, ...