Creating a routing table

Creating a routing table in the UI

To create a routing table in the UI, follow these steps:

1. From the IBM Cloud console, Select the Menu icon , then click VPC Infrastructure > Routing tables in the Network section. The Routing tables for VPC page appears.

2. Click Create in the upper right of the page.

3. In the Routing table for VPC provisioning page, complete the following information:

   • Enter a unique name for your routing table.

   • Select the Virtual Private Cloud that you want to associate with the routing table.

   • In the Traffic section, you can select from these optional features:

     • Accepts routes from (optional) - Choose which resources can create routes in the routing table. You can select the switch for VPN server, VPN gateway, or both.

     • Traffic source (optional) - Select the traffic source that will use this routing table to route its traffic to the VPC.

       • Direct Link - Allows ingress traffic from an IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated or Connect connection to an on-premises location. Optionally, you can advertise routes to a direct link, which are not in the address prefix range of the VPC.
       • Transit gateway - Allows ingress traffic from an IBM Cloud Transit Gateway to another VPC or classic infrastructure. Optionally, you can advertise routes to a transit gateway, which are not in the address prefix range of the VPC.
       • VPC zone - Allows ingress traffic to another availability zone of the same VPC.
       • Public internet - Allows public internet ingress traffic destined to a floating IP to be routed to a VPC next-hop IP.

4. Click Create routing table.

Creating a routing table from the CLI

Before you begin, set up your CLI environment.

To create a routing table from the CLI, run the following command:

To see advertise custom routes options in the CLI, you must first export a feature flag:

export IBMCLOUD_IS_FEATURE_ADVERTISE_CUSTOM_ROUTES=true

ibmcloud is vpc-routing-table-create VPC [--name NAME] [--direct-link-ingress false | true] [--internet-ingress, --internet false | true] [--transit-gateway-ingress false | true] [--vpc-zone-ingress false | true] [--accept-routes-from-resource-type-filters, --ar-rtf vpn_server | vpn_gateway] [--advertise-routes-to direct_link | transit_gateway | direct_link, transit_gateway] [--output JSON] [-q, --quiet]

Where:

VPC

Is the ID or name of the VPC.

--name

Is the name of the VPC routing table.

--direct-link-ingress, --direct-link

Optional. If set to true, this routing table is used to route traffic that originates from IBM Cloud Direct Link to this VPC. For the routing to succeed, the VPC must not already have a routing table with this property set to true. One of: false, true.

--internet-ingress, --internet

Indicates whether this routing table is used to route traffic that originates from the internet. Updating to true selects this routing table, provided no other routing table in the VPC already has this property set to true. Updating to false deselects this routing table. One of: false, true.

--transit-gateway-ingress, --transit-gateway

If set to true, this routing table is used to route traffic that originates from Transit Gateway to this VPC. For the routing to succeed, the VPC must not already have a routing table with this property set to true. One of: false, true.

--vpc-zone-ingress, --vpc-zone

Optional. If set to true, this routing table is used to route traffic that originates from the public internet. For the routing to succeed, the VPC must not have an existing routing table with this property set to true. One of: false, true.

--accept-routes-from-resource-type-filters, --ar-rtf

Comma-separated resource type filters that can create routes in this routing table. One of: vpn_server, vpn_gateway.

--advertise_routes_to TARGETS

Optional. Is a comma-separated list of advertisement targets for routes in this routing table. Currently, direct_link and transit_gateway are the allowed values. direct_link requires direct-link-ingress to be set to true. transit_gateway requires transit—gateway-ingress to be set to true. All routes in the routing table with the advertise option set to true are advertised to the ingress sources specified by 'advertise_routes_to'.

--output

Is the output format. One of: JSON.

-q, --quiet

Suppresses verbose output.

Routes with an action of deliver are treated as drop unless the next-hop is an IP address that is bound to a network interface on a subnet in the route’s zone. Hence, if an incoming packet matches a route with a next-hop of an internet-bound IP address or a VPN gateway connection, the packet is dropped.

You can set an ingress option to true on only one routing table per VPC, and then only if that routing table is not attached to any subnets.

Creating a routing table with the API

To create a routing table with the API, follow these steps:

1. Set up your API environment.

2. Store the VpcId value in a variable to be used in the API command:

   export VpcId=<your_vpc_id>
   

3. Create a routing table.

   Egress routing table:

   curl -X POST \
   "$vpc_api_endpoint/v1/vpcs/$VpcId/routing_tables?version=$api_version&generation=2" \
   -H "Authorization: ${iam_token}" \
   -d '{
         "name": "test-routing-table"
       }'
   

   Ingress routing table:

      curl -X POST "$vpc_api_endpoint/v1/vpcs/$VpcId/routing_tables?version=$api_version&generation=2" \
      -H "Authorization: $iam_token" \
      -d '{
            "name": "my-ingress-routing-table",
            "route_direct_link_ingress": true
          }'
   

Creating a routing table with Terraform

To create a routing table with Terraform, follow these steps:

1. Set up your Terraform environment.

2. Use one of the following examples:

   • To create a routing table:

     resource "ibm_is_vpc_routing_table" "example" {
       vpc                           = ibm_is_vpc.example.id
       name                          = "example-vpc-routing-table"
       route_direct_link_ingress     = true
     }
     

   • To create a routing table that accepts routes created from a VPN server:

     resource "ibm_is_vpc_routing_table" "example" {
       vpc                              = ibm_is_vpc.example.id
       name                             = "example-vpc-routing-table"
       route_direct_link_ingress        = true
       accept_routes_from_resource_type = ["vpn_server"]
     }
     

   • To create a routing table that routes traffic that originates from IBM Cloud Direct Link to this VPC:

     resource "ibm_is_vpc_routing_table" "is_vpc_routing_table_instance" {
       vpc                           = ibm_is_vpc.example.id
       name                          = "example-vpc-routing-table"
       route_direct_link_ingress     = true
       route_transit_gateway_ingress = false
       route_vpc_zone_ingress        = false
       advertise_routes_to           = ["direct_link", "transit_gateway"]
     }
     

For documentation about the ibm_is_vpc_routing_table resource, see the Terraform Registry.