GCP Loadbalancer

Question 1

What are the 3 load balancers types?

Answer 1

• Global external load balancer
• Regional external load balancer (Network LB)
• Regional internal load balancer

Question 2

When using Global external load balancer, what are the supported protocols?

Answer 2

• HTTP(S)

- SSL/TCP

Question 3

When using Regional external load balancer, what are the supported protocols?

Answer 3

• TCP

- UDP

Question 4

I need to send traffic over ipv6 to an auto scaled instance pool, can I use a global load balancer?

Answer 4

Yes the global load balancer will accept ipv6 traffic and proxy to the internal pool over ipv4.

Question 5

What type of load balancer is the Global external load balancer, L4 or something else?

Answer 5

Layer 7

Question 6

My application is in a auto scaled instance pool and I need to chose a load balancer that supports websockets, can I use a native GCP LB or do I need a 3rd party LB?

Answer 6

Global external load balancer supports websockets.

Question 7

When I have traffic coming from asia to the Global external load balancer and what it to hit the asis instance pool and not the US instanstance pool, what is this type of load balancing called?

Answer 7

Location based load balancing, requests are distributed by location.

Question 8

What is content based load balancing?

Answer 8

It is where the the destination backend pool is chosen based the request you make. This could be we have two back end pools, video, web pages, if you request a video, your request is sent to the video backend pool.

Question 9

Can I use the Global external load balancer to LB TCP traffic?

Answer 9

No.

Question 10

Can we apply a firewall rule to the front end of the LB>

Answer 10

No, but we can apply FW rule to the instance pool ar backend.