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I'm currently moving my e-commerce app to Google App Engine. I'm using the PHP Flexible runtime (PHP flex).

One of the transaction requires a call upon my Payment Provider's HTTP API. The problem now, my Payment Provider requires all caller IP address to be white-listed beforehand through some out-of-band registration. Registration is very restricted, only accepting a handful of IPv4 address per client.

I know GAE will spawn new instance as needed which will be assigned IP address from a large pool. So registering a list of address is not an option either.

I know this defeats the purpose of automatic scaling but is there any way I can assign static IP address to my app?

Is there any other way to approach this problem in GAE?

Will launching my app inside VPC helps here?

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  • As of now, the GAE doesn't have the option to assign a static IP to an application. But you can make use of a GCP VM with a static external IP address, and then use it as a proxy for your GAE App might do the task. You can also check for similar discussion here(1)
    – Digil
    Mar 8, 2018 at 23:18
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    Additionally, there is an ongoing 'Feature Request' in the GCP for assigning static IP address for the GAE. You can make your valuable comments and suggestions there as well.
    – Digil
    Mar 8, 2018 at 23:30
  • @Digil seems the proxy method is the way to go for now. If you would write this as answer I will mark it as accepted.
    – bluearth
    Mar 13, 2018 at 0:13

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As of now, the GAE doesn't have the option to assign a static IP to an application. But you can make use of a GCP VM with a static external IP address, and then use it as a proxy for your GAE App might do the task. You can also check for a similar discussion here(1)

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