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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Content-based load balancing


GCP offers different kinds of load-balancing options for HTTP/HTTPS requests, SSL (TLS) connections, and non-HTTP TCP traffic. In addition, there are two other types of load balancing for advanced use cases; an internal load balancer for internal TCP/UDP-based traffic and a network load balancer for all other TCP/UDP and SSL traffic on ports that are not supported by the standard HTTP/HTTPS, SSL proxy, and TCP proxy load balancers.

In this recipe, we'll create a simple HTTP load balancer that will route traffic; based on the content requested.

Our HTTP load balancer will be configured such that:

  • All URL paths starting with /image will be routed to the instance group image to serve the images for the website
  • All URL paths starting with /static will be routed to our Google Storage bucket to serve static content
  • All the other URL paths will be routed to the instance group web:

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verifications to be carried out before the...