Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to scale your application workload using the instance groups offered by GCP. External HTTP(S), SSL proxies, and TCP proxy load balancers are ideal for applications that require a global footprint and they reside in different GCP regions across the globe. On the contrary, internal HTTP(S), external network TCP/UDP, and internal TCP/UDP load balancers are a perfect fit for distributing workloads to applications running within a GCP region.

Additionally, you learned how to enable CDN with Google Cloud CDN to serve static content, such as images stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets, to global end users to reduce network latency.

Now that you have learned how to implement network services with GCP, in the next chapter, you will learn how to implement hybrid connectivity.