{
  "id": 14202425,
  "title": "Verifying Google Cloud egress IP ranges with cloud.json and jq",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/verifying-google-cloud-egress-ip-ranges-with-cloud-json-and-jq",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-13T13:03:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/googlecloud/verifying-google-cloud-egress-ip-ranges-with-cloudjson-and-jq-212o"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google Cloud publishes a machine-readable feed called cloud.json that contains all customer-usable external IPv4 and IPv6 ranges by region. This feed can be used to verify Google Cloud egress IP ranges and ensure that they are properly configured for outbound connections. The provided Bash script demonstrates how to automate this verification process by fetching reserved external IP addresses using the gcloud command and then matching them against the cloud.json feed using jq. By cross-referencing the reserved IPs with the published CIDR ranges in cloud.json, you can confirm which published CIDR blocks cover each of your external IPs and determine the regional scope of each IP.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}