GCP Loadbalancer

Question 1

What is the Google load balancer?

Answer 1

It is a distributed global load balancer. You get a global anycast IP, this means your traffic enters google’s network closes to you and packets travel over the google network independent of the internet network.

• backends are based on load
• Only healthy backends receive load
• No prewarming required (No need to tell google of big load on the way)

Question 2

What is a network load balancer?

Answer 2

• Regional load balancer

- TCP

Question 3

I need an external ipv6 load balancer, what is my best option?

Answer 3

This is not supported by GCP

Question 4

I need to load balance global TCP traffic, what is my best option?

Answer 4

use a multi-region load balancer, this type of LB will support loadbanancing.

Question 5

What types of load balancers are supported?

Answer 5

L7 Regional Internet facing
L7-Global internet facing
L4-Regional internet facing and internel
L4-Global internet facing and internel
L4-UDP-Regional internet or internal

Question 6

I require IPv6 termination for global users, what are my options?

Answer 6

Use internet facing global LB, this type of LB can terminate IPv6 traffic.^

Question 7

When should I use a regional LB?

Answer 7

When my users are concernatrated in a region