Traffic Director is Google Cloud's fully managed application networking platform and service mesh. With Traffic Director, you can deploy global load balancing across clusters and virtual machine (VM) instances in multiple regions, offload health checking from service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies. Learn more.

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Concepts

Resources and support

Training and tutorials

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Tutorial

Network edge services for multi-environment deployments

This tutorial walks you through an end-to-end example that uses Google Cloud Armor at Google's edge to selectively let clients access an on-premises service privately.

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Tutorial

Traffic Director setup for external backends

This tutorial describes how to configure external backends for Traffic Director by using internet FQDN network endpoint groups.

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Use cases

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Architecture

Set up a multicluster service mesh

Learn how to configure Traffic Director for service-to-service communication between services that are running in multiple projects on a Shared VPC network.

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Videos