Load balancing with F5 BIG-IP

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is not bundled with Google Distributed Cloud, so you must get a licence and set up the load balancer separately from installing Google Distributed Cloud.

You can configure Google Distributed Cloud to be integrated with F5 BIG-IP in the following sense: When a developer creates a Service of type LoadBalancer and specifies a VIP for the service, Google Distributed Cloud will automatically configure the VIP on the load balancer.

You can also use F5 BIG-IP as a manually configured load balancer. In this case, Google Distributed Cloud does not automatically configure Service VIPs.