Control access to your web applications running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

The beta of Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (Cloud IAP) unveils new excitements for web app developers which lets them control access to their web applications running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

For those who are unfamiliar, you can learn more about it and why it’s a simpler and more secure method than traditional perimeter-based access controls such as LANs and VPNs, in this previous post about Cloud IAP.

I can observe that, in this post, writer goes into the internals of how Cloud IAP works and some of the engineering decisions they made in building it.