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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer Guide

You're reading from   Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer Guide Design, implement, manage, and secure a network architecture in Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072694
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maurizio Ipsale Maurizio Ipsale
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Mirko Gilioli Mirko Gilioli
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Network Infrastructure
2. Chapter 1: Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Designing, Planning, and Prototyping a GCP Network 4. Chapter 3: Implementing a GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 5. Section 2: Network Services and Security
6. Chapter 4: Configuring Network Services in GCP 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Hybrid Connectivity in GCP 8. Chapter 6: Implementing Network Security 9. Section 3: Network Operations, Management, and Monitoring
10. Chapter 7: Managing and Monitoring Network Operations 11. Chapter 8: Advanced Networking in Google Cloud Platform 12. Chapter 9: Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification Preparation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring load balancing

In this section, you will discover how to configure load balancing services in GCP. As we discussed in Chapter 2, Designing, Planning, and Prototyping a GCP Network, Google Cloud offers several types of load balancing services that you can put in front of your backends. Now, you will learn how to configure the following load balancing solutions, as shown in Figure 4.1:

  • HTTP(S) Global Load Balancing
  • Internal Network Load Balancing

Let's start by introducing the HTTPS Global Load Balancer network service in GCP.

HTTP(S) Global Load Balancing

When your web application requires high availability of responses to web requests coming from global users, then you can choose HTTP(S) Global Load Balancing from GCP. The following diagram shows a case study of HTTP(S) Global Load Balancing that distributes web requests to a group of compute engines across different GCP regions:

Figure 4.1 – HTTP(S) Global Load...

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