Cloud Load Balancing

NetworkingGCP

General

General information about the service.

Description

Google Cloud Load Balancing distributes user traffic across multiple instances of your applications.

Service ID

compute.googleapis.com

Resource Pattern

projects/{project}/global/forwardingRules/{rule}

References

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Naming Convention

lb-{workload}-{environment}

Length

1-63

Valid Characters

Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens

Scope

project

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "google_compute_global_forwarding_rule" "main" {
2  name       = "lb-${var.environment}"
3  target     = google_compute_target_http_proxy.main.id
4  port_range = "80"
5}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

Google Cloud Console GCP

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