Choosing the Right Load Balancer

Introduction to load balancers in GCP.

In the last lesson, we looked at the essential part of the Google Cloud, “VPC networking”. VPC is a mandatory component so, it is involved in every use case.

In this lesson, we will look at the next component of the Networking ecosystem, the “load balancer”. Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads across multiple computing resources.

Introduction

Cloud load balancing maximizes the availability of resources by routing traffic to appropriate healthy instances and also helps in monitoring the uptime of the service. The load balancer provides a single point of contact for a cluster of resources.

Goole Cloud provides different types of load balancing services based on the traffic you want to serve. You might have come across a load balancer while working with GKE. A load ...