Connecting Multiple GCP Projects to a Single MongoDB Atlas Instance via PSC Across Different Regions

MongoDB Atlas
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Hi all,

I have successfully set up a MongoDB Atlas instance in the Hong Kong region and connected it to our Google Cloud Project A’s GKE A-cluster through Private Service Connect. Now, I aim to connect a second GCP project, Project B, which utilizes a GKE B-cluster in the Taiwan region, to the same MongoDB Atlas instance located in Hong Kong.

Questions:

  1. Is this cross-region architecture between different GCP projects connecting to a single MongoDB Atlas instance supported?

  2. When setting up PSC, I observed that it seems to only allow specifying one region for a single project. Is this an inherent limitation, or are there workarounds to enable multi-psc configurations for multi-project?

Any insights, experiences, or references to documentation on this would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Bill,

Thank you for reaching out. To answer your questions,

  1. Here is the Atlas documentation related to multi-region support:

The key points are:

i> Configure global access: About accessing published services through endpoints  |  VPC  |  Google Cloud
ii> Private Service Connect (referred going forward as PSC) must be active in all regions in which you want to deploy the multi-region cluster.

There is a blog post with additional useful details.

  1. Here is a high level relationship where ‘ → ’ denotes ‘consists of’:
    MongoDB account → Organization → Project → Cluster

Assuming that you want to configure private networking, when you create a dedicated cluster in a region, you have to set up one PSC in the same region as the cluster to ensure you have network connectivity to your database.

PSC is a region level construct within a project. So in your case, Atlas will allow one private endpoint group in HKG and one private endpoint group in Taiwan.

You can configure global access on a PSC endpoint and make that endpoint available in other regions.

Please let us know if you have any questions.