Reference documentation and code samples for the Compute Engine v1 API enum Firewall.Types.Direction.
Direction of traffic to which this firewall applies, either INGRESS or EGRESS. The default is INGRESS. For EGRESS traffic, you cannot specify the sourceTags fields.
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