GCP || Load Balancers Overview

aditya goel
4 min readJul 9, 2023

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In case you are landing here directly, it’s strongly suggested that you go and read through this for fundamentals.

In this blog, we shall be looking at following concepts :-

  • Introduction to Instance Groups.
  • Types of Instance Groups.
  • Introduction to Load-Balancing.
  • Launching an Load-Balancer from Scratch

Question:- What is an Instance-Group ?

Question:- What are the types of Instance-Groups, available with GCP ?

Question:- What can be the location of a Instance-Group ?

Question:- Explain something about the Managed Instance Group

Question:- What is Cloud Load Balancing ?

Question:- Explain how does OSI Layers comes into play in Computer Networking ?

Question:- Which all protocols are being used across different OSI Layers ?

Question:- What are the important terminology related to Load-Balancer ?

Question:- What are the important features of different Load-Balancers ?

Question:- Demonstrate pictorially : Which Load-Balancer should be chosen on the basis of which all parameters ?

Question:- What’s the recommended setting for ssl offloading with Load Balancers in GCP ?

Question:- Demonstrate step by step procedure to launch an External LB in GCP ?

Step #1.) Navigate to the screen for launching the Load-Balancer :-

Step #2.) Choose the type of Load-Balancer as “Internet to my VMs”. This is Internet Facing Load-Balancer, which would receive the traffic from Internet :-

Step #3.) Now, we choose the BackEnd Configuration for this Load-Balancer :-

Step #4.) In this step, we define the name of this BackEnd and timeout :-

Step #5.) In this step, we associate the Instance-Group with our LB. Ths is the step, where we also define the port-Number for our LB :-

Step #6.) In this step, we define the health-check with our LB :-

Step #7.) Finally, we are done now and can review all our configurations :-

Step #8.) And here is we have our Global-LB created now :-

That’s all in this section. If you liked reading this blog, kindly do press on clap button multiple times, to indicate your appreciation. We would see you in next series.

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aditya goel
aditya goel

Written by aditya goel

Software Engineer for Big Data distributed systems

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