Traffic Director documentation

Traffic Director documentation

Overview

Training and tutorials

Use cases

Videos

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.

Guides

• Quickstart: Deploy Traffic Director

• Set up Compute Engine VMs with automatic Envoy deployment

• Set up GKE Pods with automatic Envoy injection

• Set up advanced traffic management with proxyless gRPC services

• Set up advanced traffic management with Envoy

• Observability with Envoy

• Observability with proxyless gRPC services

Concepts

• Traffic Director features

• Traffic Director overview

• Proxyless gRPC services overview

• Routing rule maps overview

• Advanced traffic management

• Forwarding rules for Traffic Director

• Target proxies for Traffic Director

Resources and support

• Troubleshooting deployments that use Envoy

• Troubleshooting deployments that use proxyless gRPC

• xDS control plane APIs

• Pricing

• Quotas and limits

• Release notes

• Getting support

• Billing questions

Training and tutorials

Try Traffic Director tutorials, courses, and self-paced training from Google Cloud Skills Boost.

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

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Architecture

Configuring Traffic Director with Shared VPC on multiple GKE clusters

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