Welcome back. In this lesson, I'm going to demonstrate how to use gcloud to reserve a new static external IP address. It's a short demo, but I wanted to familiarize you with using gcloud for typical management tasks, like reserving IP addresses.

On the screen here, you can see I'm logged into my console. What I'm going to do is click the Cloud Shell icon to launch gcloud. Once I've got my Cloud Shell up, I can use gcloud compute to reserve my address. What I'm going to do here is use the addresses create subcommand and then specify that I'm reserving a regional IP address. So what I'm going to do here is type the command out so you can see what it looks like. We'll start with gcloud, and then we'll go with compute, and then what we're going to do is specify addresses create. Now what I need to do is give my reserved address resource a name. So I'll call it myreservedaddress, and then what I need to do is specify the region I want to deploy this to. So we'll use the --region flag and then we'll specify, I guess, us-central. More specifically, us-central1. 

Now, since I'm reserving a regional address, I don't need to specify the IP version. If I were specifying a global address, what I would use is the --ip-version-flag here, and then specify either IPv4 or IPv6. Since this is a regional address that we're reserving, the --ip-version flag doesn't work so we'll go ahead and backspace over this. And then what we'll do is hit Enter here. Now, once this command completes, I'm left with the reserved static IP in the uscentral1 region, and if I go back into my VPC here, we can see my reserve address is now listed. It's a static address and it's IPv4. So that is how you reserve a static external IP address using gcloud.