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Configure a regional Cloud Load Balancing backend service in Application Design Center
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The Regional Cloud Load Balancing (Backend) component helps you manage load
balancer traffic distribution settings, including the protocol used to connect
to backends, session settings, health checks, and timeouts. These settings
provide fine-grained control over how your load balancer behaves. You can
configure the following backends:
For more information, see Backend services
overview .
Required configuration parameters
If your template includes a regional Cloud Load Balancing backend component,
you must configure the following parameters before you deploy.
Optional configuration parameters
The following parameters are optional. To display advanced parameters, in the
Configuration area, select Show advanced fields .
Feature
Parameter name
Description and constraint information
Background information
Serverless NEG backends
Region
region
Serverless network endpoint groups overview
Type
networkEndpointType
Serverless network endpoint groups overview
Service Name
appEngine.service
Serverless network endpoint groups overview
Service Version
appEngine.version
Serverless network endpoint groups overview
Capacity Scaler
backends[].capacityScaler
Capacity Scaler
Groups
Group
backends[].group
Backends
Description
A description for the backends group.
backends[].description
Balancing Mode
backends[].balancingMode
Balancing modes and target capacity settings
Capacity Scaler
backends[].capcityScaler
Capacity scaler
Max Connections
backends[].maxConnections
Connection balancing mode
Max Connections Per Instance
backends[].maxConnectionsPerInstance
Connection balancing mode
Max Connections Per Endpoint
backends[].maxConnectionsPerEndpoint
Connection balancing mode
Max Rate
backends[].maxRate
Rate balancing mode
Max Rate Per Instance
backends[].maxRatePerInstance
Rate balancing mode
Max Rate Per Endpoint
backends[].maxRatePerEndpoint
Rate balancing mode
Max Utilization
backends[].maxUtilization
Utilization balancing mode
Load Balancing Scheme
loadBalancingScheme
Backend services overview
Protocol
protocol
Protocol to the backends
Port Name
portName
Named ports
Description
A description for the backend service.
description
Health Check
Host
http2HealthCheck.host
Additional flags for HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2 health checks
Request Path
http2HealthCheck.requestPath
Success criteria for HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2
Request
http2HealthCheck.request
ASuccess criteria for SSL and TCP
Response
sslHealthCheck.response
Additional flags for HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2 health checks
Port
http2HealthCheck.port
Health check categories, protocols, and ports
Port Name
http2HealthCheck.portName
Named ports
Proxy Header
http2HealthCheck.proxyHeader
Headers
Port Specification
http2HealthCheck.portSpecification
Port specification flags
Protocol
The protocol that Google Cloud uses to probe the backends. For example, http2.
Health check categories, protocols, and ports
Check Interval Sec
checkIntervalSec
Probes
Timeout Sec
timeoutSec
Probes
Healthy Threshold
healthyThreshold
Health state
Unhealthy Threshold
unhealthyThreshold
Health state
Logging
logConfig.enable
Health check logging information
Firewall Networks
network
Configure firewall rules
Firewall Projects
Names of the projects to create firewall rules in.
Configure firewall rules
Target Tags
targetTags[]
Restrict which clients can send traffic to the load balancer
Target Service Accounts
targetServiceAccounts[]
Source and target filtering by service account
Connection Draining Timeout Sec
connectionDraining.drainingTimeoutSec
Enable connection draining
Enable CDN
enableCDN
Cloud CDN overview
Session Affinity
sessionAffinity
Session affinity
Affinity Cookie TTL Sec
affinityCookieTtlSec
Generated cookie affinity
Locality LB Policy
localityLbPolicy
Load balancing locality policy
Security Policy
securityPolicy
Google Cloud Armor
Timeout Sec
timeoutSec
Backend service timeout
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Last updated 2025-02-18 UTC.
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