How-to Guides

Overview Guides

• Choosing a load balancer

  A short guide to choosing the right load balancer

HTTP(S) Guides

• Setting up HTTP(S) Load Balancing

  Set up an HTTP(S) load balancer

• Creating content-based load balancing

  Create content-based load balancing

• Adding a Cloud Storage Bucket to content-based load balancing

  Add a bucket to content-based load balancing

• Creating cross-region load balancing

  Create cross-region load balancing

• HTTP(S) logging and monitoring

  Set up Stackdriver logging and monitoring for HTTP(S) Load Balancing

• Creating user-defined request headers

  Conceptual and how-to information on user-defined request headers

SSL Proxy Load Balancing Guides

• Setting up SSL Proxy Load Balancing

  Set up SSL proxy Load Balancing

TCP Proxy Load Balancing Guides

• Setting up TCP Proxy Load Balancing

  Set up TCP Proxy Load Balancing

• TCP/SSL logging and monitoring

  Set up Stackdriver logging and monitoring for TCP/SSL Load Balancing

Network Load Balancing Guides

• Setting up Network Load Balancing

  Set up Network Load Balancing

Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing Guides

• Setting Up Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing

  Set up Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing

• Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing Logging and Monitoring

  Set up Stackdriver logging and monitoring for Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing

Network Endpoint Groups in Load Balancing Guides

• Setting up network endpoint groups in load balancing

  Set up network endpoint groups in load balancing

Load Balancing Components

• Understanding backend services

  Configure a backend service for your load balancer

• Using backend buckets

  Use a Cloud Storage bucket as a load balancer backend

• Creating and using SSL certificates

  Create and install one or more SSL certificates

• Using SSL policies

  Control the features of SSL that your SSL proxy or HTTPS load balancer negotiates.

• Enabling connection draining

  Enable connection draining on backend services to ensure minimal interruption when an instance is removed from an instance group

• Adding health checks

  Add health checks to monitor your instances' condition

• Using target proxies

  Use target proxies to direct incoming requests to a URL map or backend services

• Using target pools

  Create a group of instances that receive incoming traffic from forwarding rules

• Using forwarding rules

  Create forwarding rules to provide the frontend configuration for GCP load balancers

• Using URL maps

  Direct traffic to different instances based on the incoming URL