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| Cloud Load Balancing overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing-overview |
| Choose a load balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer |
| Cloud Load Balancing resource model | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancer-resource-model |
| Load balancer feature comparison | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features |
| Roles and permissions | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/access-control |
| IAM Conditions for forwarding rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/access-control/iam-conditions |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/org-policy-constraints |
| Use custom constraints | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/custom-constraints |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/application-load-balancer |
| Architecture overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https |
| Request distribution overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/request-distribution |
| Managed VM instance group backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-global-ext-https-compute |
| Cloud Storage (backend buckets) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-global-ext-https-buckets |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-global-ext-https-external-backend |
| Cloud Run, App Engine, or Cloud Run functions backends (serverless NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-global-ext-https-serverless |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-ext-global-https-hybrid |
| Traffic management overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-global |
| Set up traffic management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-global-traffic-mgmt |
| Set up HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-global-http-https-redirect |
| Set up load balancer with Shared VPC | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/set-up-global-ext-https-shared-vpc |
| Set up load balancer with cross-project backend service and backend bucket | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-cross-project-backend-service-backend-bucket |
| Create custom headers in backend services | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers-global |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-error-response |
| Configure custom error responses | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/configure-custom-error-responses |
| Terraform examples | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-http-lb-tf-module-examples |
| Managed VM instance group backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-https-lb-simple |
| Cloud Storage (backend buckets) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-load-balancer-backend-buckets |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https-external-backend-internet-neg |
| Cloud Run, App Engine, or Cloud Functions backends (serverless NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https-serverless |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-ext-https-hybrid |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/migrate-to-global |
| Migrate to global external Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/migrate-from-classic-global |
| Roll back to classic Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/roll-back-migrated-resources |
| Traffic management overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management |
| Create custom headers in backend services | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers |
| Set up custom header and query parameter-based routing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-query-and-header-routing |
| Set up URL redirect | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-url-redirects-classic |
| Set up HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-http-https-redirect |
| Set up URL rewrite | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-url-rewrite |
| Managed VM instance group backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-https-lb |
| Cloud Run backends (serverless NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-https-serverless |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-https-hybrid |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-regional-ext-https-external-backend |
| Traffic management overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-regional |
| Set up traffic management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-traffic-mgmt |
| Set up high availability | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/reg-applb-ha-overview |
| Set up HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-http-https-redirect |
| Set up load balancer with Shared VPC | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-shared-vpc |
| Create custom headers in URL maps | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers-regional |
| Fail over to regional load balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/applb-failover-overview |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/https-logs-monitor-overview |
| Global load balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/https-logging-monitoring |
| Regional load balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/https-reg-logging-monitoring |
| Troubleshooting | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/troubleshooting-ext-https-lbs |
| Best practices | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/http-load-balancing-best-practices |
| Request routing to a multi-region external HTTPS load balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https |
| Faster web performance and improved web protection for load balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/faster-performance-improved-protection |
| Deliver HTTP and HTTPS content over the same published domain | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/http-https-over-same-domain |
| Optimize application latency with load balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/optimize-app-latency |
| Application capacity optimizations with global load balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/about-capacity-optimization-with-global-lb |
| Capacity management with load balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/capacity-management-with-load-balancing |
| Architecture overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal |
| Managed VM instance group backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-l7-cross-reg-internal |
| Cloud Storage (backend buckets) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setup-cross-region-internal-https-buckets |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-l7-cross-reg-hybrid |
| Cloud Run backends (serverless NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-l7-cross-reg-serverless |
| Terraform examples | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/int-https-lb-tf-examples |
| VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-l7-internal |
| Cloud Run backends (serverless NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-l7-internal-serverless |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-int-https-hybrid |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setup-regional-int-https-external-backend |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/traffic-management |
| Set up traffic management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-traffic-management |
| Set up HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/setting-up-http-to-https-redirect |
| Create custom headers in URL maps | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/custom-headers |
| Set up load balancer with Shared VPC | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/l7-internal-shared-vpc |
| Service Directory registration | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/ilb-sd-overview |
| Load balancing and connected networks | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/internal-https-lb-and-other-networks |
| View logs and metrics | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/monitoring |
| Troubleshooting | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/l7-internal/troubleshooting-l7-ilb |
| Convert load balancer to IPv6 | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/convert-global-ext-https-dualstack |
| Use custom metrics | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/applb-custom-metrics |
| Load testing backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service-load-testing |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/proxy-network-load-balancer |
| Architecture overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp |
| Global SSL proxy with VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-global-ext-proxy-ssl |
| Global TCP proxy with VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-global-ext-proxy-tcp |
| Terraform examples | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/ext-tcp-proxy-lb-tf-examples |
| Global SSL proxy with VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl/setting-up-ssl |
| Global TCP proxy with VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/setting-up-tcp |
| VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-ext-reg-tcp-proxy-migs |
| Zonal NEG backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-ext-reg-tcp-proxy-zonal |
| Hybrid connectivity (Hybrid NEGs) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-ext-reg-tcp-proxy-hybrid |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-ext-reg-tcp-proxy-internet |
| Architecture overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/internal-proxy |
| Managed VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/setup-cross-reg-proxy-migs |
| On-premises or other cloud backends (zonal and hybrid NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/setup-cross-reg-proxy-hybrid |
| Managed VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-int-tcp-proxy-migs |
| Zonal NEG backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-int-tcp-proxy-zonal |
| Hybrid connectivity (Hybrid NEGs) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-int-tcp-proxy-hybrid |
| External backend (internet NEG) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/set-up-int-tcp-proxy-internet |
| Load balancing and connected networks | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/internal-proxy-lb-and-other-networks |
| View logs and metrics | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/tcp-ssl-proxy-logging-monitoring |
| Convert load balancer to IPv6 | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tcp/convert-global-ext-proxy-dualstack |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/passthrough-network-load-balancer |
| Backend service-based architecture | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-backend-service |
| Target pool-based architecture | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-target-pools |
| VM instance group backends (TCP/UDP only) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/setting-up-network-backend-service |
| VM instance group backends (multiple protocols) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/setting-up-networklb-multiple-protocols |
| Zonal NEG backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/setting-up-network-zonal-neg |
| Target pool-based load balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/setting-up-network |
| Traffic distribution concepts | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/ext-netlb-traffic-distribution |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-failover-overview |
| Configure failover | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-setting-up-failover |
| Configure weighted load balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/configure-weighted-netlb |
| Migrate from target pools to backend services | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/transition-to-backend-services |
| Service Directory registration | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-sd-overview |
| Use UDP with network load balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/udp-with-network-load-balancing |
| View logs and metrics | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/networklb-monitoring |
| Troubleshooting | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/network/troubleshooting-networklb |
| Architecture overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal |
| Terraform examples | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/int-tcp-udp-lb-tf-module-examples |
| VM instance group backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal |
| VM instance group backend for multiple protocols | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-ilb-multiple-protocols |
| Zonal NEG backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal-zonal-neg |
| Traffic distribution concepts | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/int-netlb-traffic-distribution |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/failover-overview |
| Configure failover | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-failover |
| Zonal affinity | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/zonal-affinity |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/ilb-next-hop-overview |
| Set up load balancing for third-party appliances | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-ilb-next-hop |
| Forwarding rules that use a common IP address | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/multiple-forwarding-rules-same-ip |
| Service Directory registration | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/ilb-sd-overview |
| Load balancing and connected networks | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/internal-tcp-udp-lb-and-other-networks |
| Set up load balancer as next hop (with tags) | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setting-up-internal-next-hop-tags |
| Deploy a hub-and-spoke network | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/deploying-ilb-next-hop-vm |
| Set up a load balancer with internal IPv6-only backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/setup-load-balancer-ipv6-backends-subnets-nat-table |
| View logs and metrics | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/internal-logging-monitoring |
| Troubleshooting | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/troubleshooting-ilb |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/protocol-forwarding |
| Set up protocol forwarding | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/set-up-protocol-forwarding |
| Switch between a target instance and a backend service | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/switch-between-target-instance-and-backend-service |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates |
| Use self-managed SSL certificates | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/self-managed-certs |
| Use Google-managed SSL certificates | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/google-managed-certs |
| Encryption to the backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/encryption-to-the-backends |
| Troubleshooting | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/troubleshooting |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-policies-concepts |
| Use SSL policies | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/use-ssl-policies |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/mtls |
| Set up frontend mTLS with user-provided certificates | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-mtls-ccm |
| Set up frontend mTLS with a private CA | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-mtls-ca-ccm |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-authenticated-tls-backend-mtls |
| Set up backend authenticated TLS | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-authenticated-tls-setup |
| Set up backend mTLS | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-mtls-setup |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/auth-policy/auth-policy-overview |
| Set up policies for Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/auth-policy/set-up-auth-policy-app-lb |
| Advanced load balancing optimizations | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/service-lb-policy |
| Backend services | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service |
| Connection draining | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/enabling-connection-draining |
| Firewall rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/firewall-rules |
| Forwarding rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/forwarding-rule-concepts |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts |
| Use health checks | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-checks |
| Internal DNS names | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/dns-names |
| IPv6 | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ipv6 |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs |
| Hybrid connectivity NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/hybrid-neg-concepts |
| Internet NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/internet-neg-concepts |
| Serverless NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/serverless-neg-concepts |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/zonal-neg-concepts |
| Set up zonal NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/setting-up-zonal-negs |
| Proxy-only subnets | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/proxy-only-subnets |
| Tags | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tags |
| Target pools | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/target-pools |
| Target proxies | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/target-proxies |
| Overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/url-map-concepts |
| Use URL maps | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/url-map |
| Audit logging information | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/audit-logging |
| Health check logging information | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-logging |
| Clean up a load balancer setup | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/cleaning-up-lb-setup |
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AI and ML
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Application development
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Application hosting
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Compute
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/compute-area |
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Data analytics and pipelines
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/data |
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Databases
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/databases |
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Distributed, hybrid, and multicloud
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/dhm-cloud |
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Generative AI
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/generative-ai |
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Industry solutions
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/industry |
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Networking
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/networking |
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Observability and monitoring
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/observability |
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Security
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/security |
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Storage
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/storage |
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Access and resources management
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/access-resources |
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Costs and usage management
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/costs-usage |
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Infrastructure as code
| https://cloud.google.com/docs/iac |
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Migration
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SDK, languages, frameworks, and tools
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Home
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Networking
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Load Balancing
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Guides
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| Application Load Balancer overview: Use
cases | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/application-load-balancer#use-cases |
| Google Front Ends
(GFEs) | https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/infrastructure/design#google-frontend-service |
| Envoy proxy | https://www.envoyproxy.io/ |
| advanced traffic
management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-global |
| Google Front Ends
(GFEs) | https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/infrastructure/design#google-frontend-service |
| Envoy
proxy | https://www.envoyproxy.io/ |
| advanced traffic
management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-regional |
| Gateway | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api#gatewayclass |
| Standalone
NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/standalone-neg |
| advanced
traffic management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-global |
| Global Anycast
external IP addresses over Premium Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers#tab1 |
| Cloud CDN | https://cloud.google.com/cdn |
| Cloud Armor | https://cloud.google.com/armor |
| Premium Network Service
Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview |
| Traffic
distribution | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#load_distribution_algorithm |
| Standard Network
Service Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview |
| Gateway | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api#gatewayclass |
| Ingress | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/ingress-xlb |
| Standalone
NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/standalone-neg |
| Load balancing
features | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features |
| advanced
traffic management | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-regional |
| Standalone
NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/standalone-neg |
| Regional VIPs using Standard Network
Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers#tab2 |
| Load
balancing features | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features |
| Go to Load balancing | https://console.cloud.google.com/networking/loadbalancing |
| proxy-only
subnet | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#proxy-only-subnet |
| external forwarding rule | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#forwarding-rule |
| target HTTP(S) proxy | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#target-proxies |
| SSL
certificates | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#ssl-certificates |
| documented
number | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/quotas#target_pools_and_target_proxies |
| URL map | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#url-maps |
| backend service | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#backend-service |
| backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#backends |
| health check | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#health-checks |
| Firewall rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#firewall-rules |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/global-ext-https-lb.svg |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/regional-ext-https-lb.svg |
| regional Envoy-based load
balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/proxy-only-subnets#envoy-lb |
| migrate the subnet's
purpose | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/proxy-only-subnets#migrate-purpose |
| Forwarding rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/forwarding-rule-concepts |
| single port from
1-65535 | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/forwarding-rule-concepts#port_specifications |
| Network
Service Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview |
|
Global external forwarding rule | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/globalForwardingRules/insert |
|
Global external IP address | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/globalAddresses/insert |
|
Global external forwarding rule | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/globalForwardingRules/insert |
|
Global external IP address | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/globalAddresses/insert |
|
Regional external forwarding rule | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/forwardingRules/insert |
|
Regional external IP address | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/addresses/insert |
|
Regional external forwarding rule | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/forwardingRules/insert |
|
Regional external IP address | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/addresses/insert |
| PoP | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/locations |
| new features available
only with the global external Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#load-balancer-mode |
| Migrate
resources from classic to global external Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/migrate-from-classic-global |
| Load balancer
features | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#protocols_from_the_clients_to_the_load_balancer |
| IP address | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#fw-rule-ip-address-table |
| Target proxies | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/target-proxies |
| Authenticating
requests | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/internet-neg-concepts#authenticating_requests |
| Custom headers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers |
| Global HTTP | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/targetHttpProxies |
| Global HTTPS | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/targetHttpsProxies |
| X-Forwarded-For header | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#x-forwarded-for_header |
| Configured on the
backend service or backend bucket | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers |
| Global HTTP | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/targetHttpProxies |
| Global HTTPS | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/targetHttpsProxies |
| X-Forwarded-For header | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#x-forwarded-for_header |
| Configured on the
backend service or backend bucket | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers |
| Regional HTTP | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/regionTargetHttpProxies |
| Regional HTTPS | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/regionTargetHttpsProxies |
| X-Forwarded-For header | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#x-forwarded-for_header |
| Configured in the URL map | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers-regional |
| RFC
2616 | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#page-92 |
| Internet NEGs
overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/internet-neg-concepts#header-processing |
| custom request
headers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/custom-headers#working-with-request |
| URL maps | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/url-map-concepts |
| multi-region load
balancing example | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https |
| Traffic management overview for
global external Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-global |
| Traffic management overview for
regional external Application Load Balancer | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-regional |
| Global | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/urlMaps |
| Global | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/urlMaps |
| subset
of the features supported | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#routing-traffic-management |
| Regional | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/regionUrlMaps |
| Certificate configuration
methods | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates#config-tech |
| Certificate
types | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates#certificate-types |
| Certificates and Google Cloud load
balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates#certificate-summary |
| SSL policies | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-policies-concepts |
| Backend services
overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service |
| Setting up an external Application Load Balancer with a
Compute Engine backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-https-lb-simple |
|
backendServices (global) | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/backendServices |
|
backendServices (global) | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/backendServices |
|
regionBackendServices (regional) | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/regionBackendServices |
| Setting up a
load balancer with backend
buckets | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-load-balancer-backend-buckets |
| What is
Cloud Storage? | https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/introduction |
|
hybrid architecture | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/hybrid-neg-concepts#hybrid_architecture |
| multiple signals | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/multiple-signals |
| Shared VPC
environments | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#shared-vpc |
| VPC
spokes | https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/concepts/vpc-spokes-overview |
| Network Connectivity Center
hub | https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/concepts/overview |
| Shared VPC environment with cross-project service
referencing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#shared-vpc |
| vNICs or
Dynamic Network Interfaces | https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/multiple-interfaces-concepts#nic-types |
| firewall
rule | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#firewall-rules |
| Hybrid NEGs
overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/hybrid-neg-concepts#envoy-health-checks |
| protocol of the backend
service | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#protocol-to-backends |
| Load balancing
features | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#health-checks |
| Global | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/healthChecks |
| Global | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/healthChecks |
| Regional | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/regionHealthChecks |
| Health checks overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts |
| Creating health checks | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-checks |
| proxy-only subnet | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#proxy-only-subnet |
| Probe IP ranges and firewall
rules | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#ip-ranges |
| Google Cloud Armor | https://cloud.google.com/armor/docs |
| named
port | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service#named_ports |
| Google
health check probe ranges | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#ip-ranges |
|
proxy-only subnet | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/proxy-only-subnets#proxy_only_subnet_create |
| GKE Gateway
controller | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api |
| GatewayClass | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api#gatewayclass |
| GKE Ingress
controller | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/ingress |
| Container-native load
balancing through standalone zonal
NEGs | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/standalone-neg |
|
Shared VPC overview | https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/shared-vpc |
| Shared VPC
network | https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/shared-vpc#shared_vpc_networks |
| backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#backends |
| same service project | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#service-project |
| cross-project service
referencing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#cross-project |
| backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#backends |
| backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features#backends |
| same service project | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#service-project |
| cross-project service
referencing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#cross-project |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/reg-ext-https-lb-l7-shared-vpc-example.svg |
| Compute Load Balancer Services User role | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/iam#compute.loadBalancerServiceUser |
| example | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/set-up-global-ext-https-shared-vpc |
| Set up a global external Application Load Balancer with
Shared VPC | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/set-up-global-ext-https-shared-vpc |
| Set up a regional external Application Load Balancer with
Shared VPC | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-shared-vpc |
| Compute
Load Balancer Services User role | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/iam#compute.loadBalancerServiceUser |
| Grant
permissions to the Compute Load Balancer Admin to use the backend
service or backend bucket | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/set-up-global-ext-https-shared-vpc#grant-bs-user |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/reg-ext-https-lb-l7-shared-vpc-service-lb.svg |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/reg-ext-https-lb-l7-shared-vpc-host-lb.svg |
|
| https://cloud.google.com/static/load-balancing/images/global-ext-https-lb-cross-proj.svg |
| Set up cross-project service referencing with a backend service and a backend bucket | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setup-cross-project-backend-service-backend-bucket |
| active-passive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster |
| active-passive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster |
| failover routing
policy | https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/routing-policies-overview#failover-policy |
| Failover for
external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/applb-failover-overview |
| active-active | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster |
| geolocation
routing policy | https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/routing-policies-overview#geolocation-policy |
| High
availability for regional external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/reg-applb-ha-overview |
| backend service protocol to
HTTP2 | https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/backend-services/create#--protocol |
| Encryption from the load balancer to the
backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/encryption-to-the-backends |
| SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540#section-6.5.2 |
| community
article | https://discuss.google.dev/t/understanding-the-impact-of-dynamic-header-table-size-changes-in-http-2/256423 |
| RFC
8441 | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8441 |
| RFC 7540 | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7540#section-11.1 |
| backend service protocol to H2C | https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/backend-services/create#--protocol |
| HTTP/3 | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9114/ |
| IETF
QUIC | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9000/ |
| Google
QUIC | https://www.chromium.org/quic |
| BBR | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/tcp-bbr-congestion-control-comes-to-gcp-your-internet-just-got-faster |
| Alt-Svc | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Alt-Svc |
| Go to Load balancing | https://console.cloud.google.com/networking/loadbalancing/add |
| RFC 6455 | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455 |
| Backend service
timeout | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/request-distribution#timeout-bes |
| Session
affinity | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service#session_affinity |
| gRPC | https://grpc.io/docs/ |
| backends can handle TLS
traffic | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/encryption-to-the-backends |
| backend service
protocol | https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/backend-services/create#--protocol |
| HTTP/2
for load balancing with Ingress | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/ingress-http2 |
| Use HTTP/2 behind a load balancer | https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/http2#http2-lb |
| Troubleshooting
issues with HTTP/2 to the backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/troubleshooting-ext-https-lbs |
| HTTP/2
limitations | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#HTTP2-limitations |
| Certificate Manager | https://cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/overview |
| Mutual TLS
authentication | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/mtls |
| RFC
8446 | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446 |
| early data | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8470 |
| HTTP Early-Data header | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8470#section-5.1 |
| HTTP 425 Too
Early status code | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8470#section-5.2 |
| Go to Load balancing | https://console.cloud.google.com/net-services/loadbalancing/list |
| close_notify closure
alert | https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246#section-7.2.1 |
| primary
certificate | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates#multiplessl |
| Internet NEG
backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/negs/internet-neg-concepts#support_for_the_ssl_server_name_indication_sni_extension |
| Encryption from the load balancer to the
backends | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/encryption-to-the-backends |
| regions
supporting Standard Tier | https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview#regions_supporting_standard_tier |
| cache
invalidation | https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/cache-invalidation-overview |
| Shared VPC cross-project service
referencing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#shared-vpc |
| Request distribution for
external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/request-distribution |
| Setting up an
external Application Load Balancer with a Compute Engine
backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-http-lb-simple |
| Setting up a
regional external Application Load Balancer with a Compute Engine
backend | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-reg-ext-https-lb |
| Migration
overview | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/migrate-to-global |
| Terraform module examples for
external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/ext-http-lb-tf-module-examples |
| Traffic management overview for
global external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-global |
| Traffic management
overview for regional external Application Load Balancers | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/traffic-management-regional |
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websites | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview |
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balancing
tutorial | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/capacity-management-with-load-balancing |
| Application capacity optimizations with global load
balancing | https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/tutorials/about-capacity-optimization-with-global-lb |
| Certificate Manager
overview | https://cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/overview |
| Service Extensions plugins or callouts | https://cloud.google.com/service-extensions/docs/overview#integration-lb |
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