Architecture

GDC Sandbox simulates the physical and network environment of a Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped physical installation, using virtual machines and other Google Cloud services.

The GDC Sandbox platform consists of the following components:

Admin clusters used to deploy the GDC components
Components that provide Block and Object Storage
Kubernetes clusters with worker nodes to run customer workloads
A gateway VM that users connect to using Google Cloud authentication and Cloud IAP

Architecture of the sandbox

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Last updated 2026-08-11 UTC.