April 6, 2023 Release Notes

New features

Cloud-side provisioning for Google Cloud connections

You can now add Google Cloud credentials to PacketFabric, allowing you to perform certain Google Cloud tasks from PacketFabric, including:

• Provisioning the Google Cloud VLAN attachment from the PacketFabric portal/API.
• Automatically deleting the associated VLAN attachment when deleting the connection from the PacketFabric.
• The ability to view VLAN attachment details from PacketFabric.
• The ability to modify VLAN attachment information from PacketFabric, including updating the MTU, both BGP ASNs, advertised prefixes, keepalive interval, and MD5 key.

When provisioning a Hosted connection or a Cloud Router connection to Google Cloud, you will now see an option to provision the cloud side of the connection:

You will be asked to enter a Google Cloud key. Once added, you can provision and accept the Google VLAN attachment while building the PacketFabric connection.

For more information, see Google Access Keys , Create a Hosted Connection to Google , and Add a Google Partner Interconnect to a Cloud Router .

Cloud credentials management

A new Cloud Credentials page is available from the admin menu.

From here you can add and manage saved credentials to Google and AWS. For more information, see Cloud Credentials .

Changes and enhancements

Miscellaneous

• Cloud Router connections to dedicated cloud ports now show a cloud icon in the Cloud Router connections list.
• The Allow longer prefixes toggle in the BGP session settings for a Cloud Router connection has been replaced with a Match type selection. This was done to prevent user confusion and to reflect how this option appeared when setting it on a per-prefix basis.
• A link to the port details page was added to the details page of Cloud Router dedicated port connections.

Bug fixes

• Some Cloud Router connections were displaying the wrong POP ID for the on-ramp.
• The portal front end was allowing MD5 field submissions with invalid lengths.