Overview

When deploying applications with Encore Cloud, a network is automatically provisioned with default settings. However, if you plan to peer your Encore network with an existing network, you can manually configure the IP range for your environment.

Benefits

Configuring custom network settings allows you to:

• Connect your Encore application to existing networks via peering
• Prevent IP range conflicts with other networks in your organization
• Plan your network topology with predictable addressing

Configuring network settings

Follow these steps to configure custom network settings:

1. Navigate to Create Environment in the Encore Cloud dashboard
2. Select the AWS or GCP cloud provider
3. Expand the Network section
4. Enter your desired IP range
   • The range must be at least a /16 block to reserve enough IPs for your application to grow
   • Choose a range that doesn't conflict with your existing networks

Once configured, Encore will use your specified IP range instead of assigning a random private network.

Default network behavior

By default, Encore will reserve a randomly assigned /16 block in one of the private IP ranges. This is suitable for most deployments that don't require network peering.