Deployment and Provisioning Flashcards
What are the three components of an ALB?
Load Balancer
Listener
Target Groups
What is an ALB listener?
Reads requests from clients
Compares requests to rules, then forwards to target group
What is ALB target group?
Receives forwards from a listener
Where are health checks configured in an ALB?
Per target group
Can targets exist in more than one target group?
Yes
At what layer of the OSI model does the ALB route data?
Layer 7
In an ALB, what is path-based routing?
forwards based on the URL in the request.
/dev and /prod can route to different target groups
In an ALB, what is host-based routing?
Forwards based on the host field in the HTTP header.
dev.mysite.com and prod.mysite.com can route to different target groups.
At what layer does the network load balancer work?
Layer 4
Which load balancer should you use if using classic EC2 instances?
Classic Load Balancer
To ensure evenly-distributed traffic to all registered instances, do what?
enable cross-zone load balancing
Can EFS span availability zones?
Yes
Is Windows supported for EFS?
No
does NFS support bursting?
Yes
How can you encrypt EFS
With KMS