Even Google's Go client for the GCE metadata uses an IP address:
> Using a fixed IP makes it very difficult to spoof the metadata
https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/ae56891...
> Using a fixed IP makes it very difficult to spoof the metadata
https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/ae56891...
It was not straightforward. I learned a lot about iptables and docker networking.