Set up an external SSL proxy load balancer with VM instance group backends

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This document provides instructions for setting up External SSL Proxy Load Balancing. Before you start, read External SSL Proxy Load Balancing overview for information on how External SSL Proxy Load Balancing works.

Setup overview

This example demonstrates setting up global External SSL Proxy Load Balancing for a simple service that exists in two regions: us-central1 and us-east1. You will configure the following:

  1. Four instances spread across two regions
  2. Instance groups for holding the instances
  3. Backend components, which include the following:
    • Health check - used to monitor instance health
    • Backend service - monitors instance groups and prevents them from exceeding configured usage
    • Backends - hold the instance groups
  4. Frontend components, which include the following:
    • An SSL certificate resource. You can use either a self-managed certificate, where you supply your own SSL certificate, or a Google-managed certificate, where Google issues a certificate that is valid for all of your domains. For more information, see Types of SSL certificates.
    • The SSL proxy itself with its SSL certificate
    • An external static IPv4 address and a forwarding rule that sends user traffic to the proxy
    • An external static IPv6 address and a forwarding rule that sends user traffic to the proxy
  5. A firewall rule that allows traffic from the load balancer and health checker to the instances.
  6. Optionally, an SSL policy to control the features of SSL that your SSL proxy load balancer negotiates with clients.

After that, you'll test your configuration.

Permissions

To follow this guide, you must be able to create instances and modify a network in a project. You must be either a project owner or editor, or you must have all of the following Compute Engine IAM roles:

Task Required Role
Create networks, subnets, and load balancer components Network Admin
Add and remove firewall rules Security Admin
Create instances Compute Instance Admin

For more information, see the following guides:

Configure instances and instance groups

This section shows how to create instances and instance groups, then add the instances to the instance groups. A production system would normally use managed instance groups based on instance templates, but this setup is quicker for initial testing.

Create instances

For testing purposes, install Apache on four instances, two in each of two instance groups. Typically, you would not use External SSL Proxy Load Balancing for HTTP traffic, but Apache is commonly used and is easy to set up for testing.

Create these instances with the tag ssl-lb, which the firewall rule will use later.

Console

Create instances

  1. Go to the VM instances page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to the VM instances page

  2. Click Create instance.

  3. Set Name to ig-us-central1-1.

  4. Set the Zone to us-central1-b.

  5. Click Advanced options.

  6. Click Networking and configure the following field:

    1. For Network tags, enter ssl-lb.

  7. Click Management. Enter the following script into the Startup script field.

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-central1-1</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html

  8. Leave the default values for rest of the fields.

  9. Click Create.

  10. Create ig-us-central1-2 with the same settings, except with Startup script set to the following:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-central1-2</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html

  11. Create ig-us-east1-1 with the same settings, except with Zone set to us-east1-b and Startup script set to the following:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-east1-1</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html

  12. Create ig-us-east1-2 with the same settings, except with Zone set to us-east1-b and Startup script set to the following:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-east1-2</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html

gcloud

  1. Create ig-us-central1-1 in zone us-central1-b.

    gcloud compute instances create ig-us-central1-1 \
   --image-family debian-10 \
   --image-project debian-cloud \
   --tags ssl-lb \
   --zone us-central1-b \
   --metadata startup-script="#! /bin/bash
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
     sudo a2ensite default-ssl
     sudo a2enmod ssl
     sudo service apache2 restart
     echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-central1-1</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
     EOF"

  2. Create ig-us-central1-2 in zone us-central1-b.

    gcloud compute instances create ig-us-central1-2 \
  --image-family=debian-10 \
  --image-project=debian-cloud \
  --tags=ssl-lb \
  --zone=us-central1-b \
   --metadata=startup-script="#! /bin/bash
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
    sudo a2ensite default-ssl
    sudo a2enmod ssl
    sudo service apache2 restart
    echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-central1-2</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
     EOF"

  3. Create ig-us-east1-1 in zone us-east1-b.

    gcloud compute instances create ig-us-east1-1 \
  --image-family=debian-10 \
  --image-project=debian-cloud \
  --tags=ssl-lb \
  --zone=us-east1-b \
  --metadata=startup-script="#! /bin/bash
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
    sudo a2ensite default-ssl
    sudo a2enmod ssl
    sudo service apache2 restart
    echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-east1-1</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
    EOF"

  4. Create ig-us-east1-2 in zone us-east1-b.

    gcloud compute instances create ig-us-east1-2 \
  --image-family=debian-10 \
  --image-project=debian-cloud \
  --tags=ssl-lb \
  --zone=us-east1-b \
  --metadata=startup-script="#! /bin/bash
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
    sudo a2ensite default-ssl
    sudo a2enmod ssl
    sudo service apache2 restart
    echo '<!doctype html><html><body><h1>ig-us-east1-2</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
    EOF"

Create an instance group for each zone and add instances

Console

  1. Go to the Instance groups page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to the Instance groups page

  2. Click Create instance group.

  3. Set the Name to us-ig1.

  4. Set the Zone to us-central1-b.

  5. Under Port mapping, click Add port. A load balancer sends traffic to an instance group through a named port. Create a named port to map the incoming traffic to a specific port number.

    1. Enter a Port name of ssl-lb and Port numbers of 443.

  6. Under Instance definition, click Select existing instances.

  7. From VM instances select ig-us-central1-1 and ig-us-central1-2.

  8. Leave other settings as they are.

  9. Click Create.

  10. Repeat steps, but set the following:

    • Name: us-ig2
    • Zone: us-east1-b
    • Port name of ssl-lb and Port numbers of 443
    • Instances: ig-us-east1-1 and ig-us-east1-2.

  11. Confirm that you now have two instance groups, each with two instances.

gcloud

  1. Create the us-ig1 instance group.

    gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged create us-ig1 --zone us-central1-b

  2. Set a named port for the instance group.

    gcloud compute instance-groups set-named-ports us-ig1 \
    --named-ports=ssl-lb:443 \
    --zone=us-central1-b

  3. Add ig-us-central1-1 and ig-us-central1-2 to us-ig1

    gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances us-ig1 \
    --instances=ig-us-central1-1,ig-us-central1-2 \
    --zone=us-central1-b

  4. Create the us-ig2 instance group.

    gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged create us-ig2 --zone us-east1-b

  5. Set a named port for the instance group.

    gcloud compute instance-groups set-named-ports us-ig2 \
    --named-ports=ssl-lb:443 \
    --zone=us-east1-b

  6. Add ig-us-east1-1 and ig-us-east1-2 to us-ig2

    gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances us-ig2 \
     --instances=ig-us-east1-1,ig-us-east1-2 \
     --zone=us-east1-b

You now have an instance group in each of two regions, each with two instances.

Create a firewall rule for the SSL load balancer

Configure the firewall to allow traffic from the load balancer and health checker to the instances.

Console

  1. Go to the Firewall page in the Google Cloud console.
    Go to the Firewall page
  2. Click Create firewall rule.
  3. In the Name field, enter allow-ssl-lb-and-health.
  4. Under Network, select default.
  5. Under Targets, select Specified target tags.
  6. Set Target tags to ssl-lb.
  7. Set Source filter to IPv4 ranges.
  8. Set Source IPv4 ranges to 130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16.
  9. Under Protocols and ports, set Specified protocols and ports to tcp:443.
  10. Click Create.

gcloud 

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-ssl-lb-and-health \
   --source-ranges=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 \
   --target-tags=ssl-lb \
   --allow=tcp:443

If you are using a Google-managed certificate, confirm that your certificate resource's status is ACTIVE. For more information, see Google-managed SSL certificate resource status.

gcloud compute ssl-certificates list

Configure the load balancer

Console

  1. Go to the Load balancing page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to the Load balancing page

  2. Click Create load balancer.

  3. Under TCP load balancing, click Start configuration.

  4. Under Internet facing or internal only select From Internet to my VMs.

  5. Under Multiple regions or single region, select Multiple regions (or not sure yet).

Backend configuration

  1. Click Backend configuration.
  2. Set the Name of the load balancer to my-ssl-lb.
  3. Set the Protocol to SSL.
  4. For Named port, enter ssl-lb.
  5. Accept the default value for the Timeout.
  6. Leave the Backend type set to Instance groups.
  7. Under New backend, select instance group us-ig1.
  8. Set Port numbers to 443.
  9. Leave other settings as they are.
  10. Under New backend, select instance group us-ig2.
  11. Set Port numbers to 443.
  12. Leave other settings as they are.
  13. Click Done.
  14. Under Health check, select Create health check.
    1. Set the health check Name to my-ssl-health-check.
    2. Set Protocol to SSL.
    3. Leave the other settings the same.
    4. Click Save and continue.

  15. Optional: Configure a default backend security policy. The default security policy throttles traffic over a user-configured threshold. For more information about default security policies, see the Rate limiting overview.

    1. To opt out of the Google Cloud Armor default security policy, select None in the backend security policy list menu.
    2. In the Security section, select Default security policy.
    3. In the Policy name field, accept the automatically generated name or enter a name for your security policy.
    4. In the Request count field, accept the default request count or enter an integer between 1 and 10,000.
    5. In the Interval field, select an interval.
    6. In the Enforce on key field, choose one of the following values: All, IP address, or X-Forwarded-For IP address. For more information about these options, see Identifying clients for rate limiting.
  16. Verify that there is a green check mark next to Backend configuration in the Google Cloud console. If not, double-check that you have completed all the steps above.

Frontend configuration

  1. Click Frontend configuration.
  2. Under New frontend IP and port, enter a Name of my-ssl-lb-forwarding-rule.
  3. Set Protocol to SSL.
  4. Under IP address, select Create IP address.
    1. Enter a Name of ssl-lb-static-ipv4.
    2. Click Reserve.
  5. Under Certificate, select Create a new certificate.
    1. Enter a Name of my-ssl-cert.
    2. If you choose Upload my certificate, complete these steps:
      1. Paste in your certificate or click Upload to navigate to your certificate file.
      2. Paste in your private key or click Upload to navigate to your private key file.
    3. If you choose Create Google managed certificate, enter a Domain.
      1. To enter additional domains, click Add Domain.
      2. Click Create.
    4. To add certificate resources in addition to the primary SSL certificate resource, click Additional certificates. Then either select another certificate from the Certificates menu or click Create a new certificate and follow the instructions above.
  6. (Optional) To create an SSL policy:
    1. Under SSL policy, select Create a policy.
    2. Enter a Name of my-ssl-policy.
    3. For Minimum TLS Version, select TLS 1.0.
    4. For Profile, select Modern. The Enabled features and Disabled features are displayed.
    5. Click Create.
  7. (Optional) Turn on Proxy protocol if desired.
  8. Click Done.
  9. Click Add frontend IP and port.
  10. Enter a Name of my-ssl-lb-ipv6-forwarding-rule.
  11. Set IP version to IPv6.
  12. Under IP address, select Create IP address.
    1. Enter a Name of ssl-lb-static-ipv6.
    2. Click Reserve.
  13. Under Certificate, select my-ssl-cert.
    1. To add certificate resources in addition to the primary SSL certificate resource, either select a certificate from the Certificates list or click Create a new certificate.
  14. (Optional) Use an SSL policy or turn on PROXY protocol if desired.
  15. Click Done.
  16. Verify that there is a green check mark next to Frontend configuration in the Google Cloud console. If not, double-check that you have completed all the steps above.

Review and finalize

  1. Click Review and finalize.
  2. Double-check your settings.
  3. Click Create.

gcloud

  1. Create a health check.

    gcloud compute health-checks create ssl my-ssl-health-check --port=443

  2. Create a backend service.

    gcloud compute backend-services create my-ssl-lb \
  --global-health-checks \
  --protocol=SSL \
  --port-name=ssl-lb \
  --health-checks=my-ssl-health-check \
  --timeout=5m \
  --global

    Alternatively you could configure unencrypted communication between from the load balancer to the instances with --protocol=TCP.

  3. Add instance groups to your backend service.

    gcloud compute backend-services add-backend my-ssl-lb \
  --instance-group=us-ig1 \
  --instance-group-zone=us-central1-b \
  --balancing-mode=UTILIZATION \
  --max-utilization=0.8 \
  --global

    gcloud compute backend-services add-backend my-ssl-lb \
  --instance-group=us-ig2 \
  --instance-group-zone=us-east1-b \
  --balancing-mode=UTILIZATION \
  --max-utilization=0.8 \
  --global

  4. Configure your SSL certificate resource.

    If you are using self-managed certificates, you must already have at least one SSL certificate to upload. If you do not, see SSL certificates. When you use multiple SSL certificates, you must create them one at a time.

    If you are using self-managed SSL certificates and you don't have a private key and signed certificate, you can create and use a self-signed certificate for testing purposes.

    To create a self-managed SSL certificate resource:

    gcloud compute ssl-certificates create my-ssl-cert \
  --certificate=[CRT_FILE_PATH] \
  --private-key=[KEY_FILE_PATH]

    To create a Google-managed SSL certificate resource:

      gcloud beta compute ssl-certificates create www-ssl-cert \
    --domains=[DOMAIN_1],[DOMAIN_2]

  5. Configure a target SSL proxy.

    External SSL Proxy Load Balancing supports creating a target SSL proxy that has from one to fifteen SSL certificates. Before you run this command, you must create an SSL certificate resource for each certificate.

    If you want to turn on the proxy header, set it to PROXY_V1 instead of none. You can optionally attach an SSL policy to the target proxy. First, create the policy.

    gcloud compute ssl-policies create my-ssl-policy \
  --profile=MODERN \
  --min-tls-version=1.0

    Then attached the policy to the target proxy.

    gcloud compute target-ssl-proxies create my-ssl-lb-target-proxy \
  --backend-service=my-ssl-lb \
  --ssl-certificates=[SSL_CERT_1][,[SSL_CERT_2],...] \
  --ssl-policy=my-ssl-policy \
  --proxy-header=NONE

  6. Reserve global static IP addresses.

    Your customers use these IP addresses to access your load-balanced service.

    gcloud compute addresses create ssl-lb-static-ipv4 \
      --ip-version=IPV4 \
      --global

    gcloud compute addresses create ssl-lb-static-ipv6 \
      --ip-version=IPV6 \
      --global

  7. Configure global forwarding rules.

    Create global forwarding rules associated with the target proxy. Replace LB_STATIC_IP and LB_STATIC_IPV6 with the IP addresses you generated in Reserve global static IP addresses.

    gcloud compute forwarding-rules create my-ssl-lb-forwarding-rule \
  --global \
  --target-ssl-proxy=my-ssl-lb-target-proxy \
  --address=LB_STATIC_IP \
  --ports=443

    gcloud compute forwarding-rules create my-ssl-lb-ipv6-forwarding-rule \
  --global \
  --target-ssl-proxy=my-ssl-lb-target-proxy \
  --address=LB_STATIC_IPV6 \
  --ports=443

Connect your domain to your load balancer

After the load balancer is created, note the IP address that is associated with the load balancer, for example, 30.90.80.100. To point your domain to your load balancer, create an A record using your domain registration service. If you added multiple domains to your SSL certificate, you must add an A record for each one, all pointing to the load balancer's IP address. For example, to create A records for www.example.com and example.com:

NAME                  TYPE     DATA
www                   A        30.90.80.100
@                     A        30.90.80.100

If you are using Google Domains, see the Google Domains Help page for more information.

Test the load balancer

In your web browser, connect to your static IP address using HTTPS. In this test setup, the instances are using self-signed certificates. Therefore, you will see a warning in your browser the first time you access a page. Click through the warning to see the actual page. Replace [IP_ADDRESS] with either the IPv4 or IPv6 address you created earlier.

https://[IP_ADDRESS]

You should see one of the hosts from the region closest to you. Reload the page until you see the other instance in that region. To see instances from the other region, stop the instances in the closest region.

Alternatively, you can use curl from the your local machine's command line. If you are using a self-signed certificate on the SSL proxy, you must also specify -k. The curl -k option allows curl to work even if you have a self-signed certificate or no certificate at all. If you have a normal certificate, you can remove that parameter. You should only use the -k parameter for testing your own site. Under normal circumstances, a valid certificate is an important security measure and certificate warnings should not be ignored.

Replace [IP_ADDRESS] with either the IPv4 or IPv6 address you created earlier.

curl -k https://[IP_ADDRESS]

If you can't reach the load balancer, try the steps described under Troubleshooting your setup.

Additional configuration options

This section expands on the configuration example to provide alternative and additional configuration options. All of the tasks are optional. You can perform them in any order.

Set PROXY protocol for retaining client connection information

Google Cloud Load Balancing with SSL proxy terminates SSL connections from the client and creates new connections to the instances. Therefore, the original client IP and port information is not preserved by default.

To preserve and send the original connection information to your instances, enable PROXY protocol (version 1) on the load balancer's frontend. This protocol sends an additional header that contains the source IP address, destination IP address, and port numbers to the instance as a part of the request.

You can also set the PROXY protocol for TCP and SSL health checks.

Make sure that the external SSL proxy load balancer's backend instances are running HTTP(S) servers that support PROXY protocol headers. If the HTTP(S) servers are not configured to support PROXY protocol headers, the backend instances return empty responses. For example, the PROXY protocol doesn't work with the Apache HTTP Server software. You can use different web server software, such as Nginx.

If you set the PROXY protocol for user traffic, you must also set it for your health checks. If you are checking health and serving content on the same port, set the health check's --proxy-header to match your load balancer setting.

The PROXY protocol header is typically a single line of user-readable text with the following format:

PROXY TCP4 <client IP> <load balancing IP> <source port> <dest port>\r\n

In this example, the client IP address is 192.0.2.1, the load balancing IP address is 198.51.100.1, the client port is 15221, and the destination port is 443:

PROXY TCP4 192.0.2.1 198.51.100.1 15221 443\r\n

When the client IP address is not known, the load balancer generates a PROXY protocol header in the following format:

PROXY UNKNOWN\r\n

Update PROXY protocol header for an existing target proxy

The example load balancer setup on this page shows you how to enable the PROXY protocol header while creating the external SSL proxy load balancer. Use these steps to change the PROXY protocol header for an existing target SSL proxy.

Console

  1. Go to the Load balancing page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to the Load balancing page

  2. Click Edit for your load balancer.

  3. Click Frontend configuration.

  4. Change the value of the Proxy protocol field.

  5. Click Update to save your changes.

gcloud 

gcloud compute target-ssl-proxies update my-ssl-lb-target-proxy \
    --proxy-header=[NONE | PROXY_V1]

Configure session affinity

These procedures show you how to update a backend service for the example SSL proxy load balancer so that the backend service uses client IP affinity.

When client IP affinity is enabled, the load balancer directs a particular client's requests to the same backend VM based on a hash created from the client's IP address and the load balancer's IP address (the external IP address of an external forwarding rule).

Console

To enable client IP session affinity:

  1. Go to the Load balancing page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to the Load balancing page

  2. Click Backends.

  3. Click my-ssl-lb (the name of the backend service you created for this example) and click Edit.

  4. On the Backend service details page, click Advanced configuration.

  5. Under Session affinity, select Client IP from the menu.

  6. Click Update.

gcloud

Use the following gcloud command to update the my-ssl-lb backend service, specifying client IP session affinity:

gcloud compute backend-services update my-ssl-lb \
    --global \
    --session-affinity=CLIENT_IP

API

To set client IP session affinity, make a PATCH request to the backendServices/patch method.

PATCH https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/[PROJECT_ID]/global/us-west1/backendServices/my-ssl-lb
{
  "sessionAffinity": "CLIENT_IP"
}

Enable connection draining

You can enable connection draining on backend services to ensure minimal interruption to your users when an instance that is serving traffic is terminated, removed manually, or removed by an autoscaler. To learn more about connection draining, see the Enabling Connection Draining documentation.

Troubleshoot your setup

If pages fail to load when trying to access your load balancer's IP address, try the following steps to troubleshoot your setup.

Verify the health of instances

Verify that the instances are HEALTHY.

  gcloud compute backend-services get-health my-ssl-lb

Verify that the firewall rule allows traffic

  • The health checker and the load balancer both require these IP addresses to allow traffic: 130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16.
  • If you are using SSL between the load balancer and the instances, use SSL health checks. Ensure that the firewall rule allows tcp:443 from the source IP address ranges 130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16.
  • If you are using TCP between the load balancer and the instances, use TCP health checks. Ensure that the firewall rule allows tcp:80 from the source IP ranges 130.211.0.0/22 and 35.191.0.0/16.
  • If you are using instance tags, make sure that the tag is listed under TARGET_TAGS in the firewall rule, and make sure that all of your instances have that tag. In this example, instances are tagged with ssl-lb.
gcloud compute firewall-rules list

NAME                      NETWORK SRC_RANGES                  RULES                        SRC_TAGS TARGET_TAGS
allow-ssl-lb-and-health  default 130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16 tcp:443                      ssl-lb

Try to reach individual instances

Temporarily set a firewall rule that allows you to access your instances individually, and then try to load a page from a specific instance.

  1. Open the firewall to allow traffic from any source to the tagged instances. Do this by creating a source filter that sets the source IP range to 0.0.0.0/0 for HTTPS traffic to instances with the ssl-lb tag.

    gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-ssl-0-0-0-0 \
    --source-ranges=0.0.0.0/0 \
    --target-tags=ssl-lb \
    --allow=tcp:443

  2. Look up the EXTERNAL_IP address of one of the instances.

    gcloud compute instances list

    NAME             ZONE           MACHINE_TYPE  PREEMPTIBLE INTERNAL_IP EXTERNAL_IP    STATUS
ig-us-central1-1 us-central1-b  n1-standard-1             10.240.0.8  EXTERNAL_IP RUNNING
ig-us-central1-2 us-central1-b  n1-standard-1             10.240.0.11 EXTERNAL_IP RUNNING
ig-us-east1-1    us-east1-b     n1-standard-1             10.240.0.12 EXTERNAL_IP RUNNING
ig-us-east1-2    us-east1-b     n1-standard-1             10.240.0.13 EXTERNAL_IP RUNNING

  3. Access one or more of your instances directly from your browser.

    https://<var>EXTERNAL_IP</var>

  4. If your instances are not accessible by this method, make sure that your software is running correctly. If it is, make sure that your load balancer firewall rule is correct.

    gcloud compute firewall-rules describe allow-ssl-lb-and-health

    allowed:
  IPProtocol: tcp
  ports:
  '443'
creationTimestamp: '2016-02-20T22:27:15.094-08:00'
description: ''
id: '5304629236729177644'
kind: compute#firewall
name: allow-130-211-0-0-22-ssl
network: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/[PROJECT_ID]/global/networks/default
selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/[PROJECT_ID]/global/firewalls/allow-ssl-lb-and-health
sourceRanges:
  130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
targetTags:
  ssl-lb

  5. When you're sure the that instances are working, remove the "from anywhere" firewall rule.

    gcloud compute firewall-rules delete allow-ssl-0-0-0-0

What's next