What is load balancing in Google cloud?

Google Cloud offers server-side load balancing so you can distribute incoming traffic across multiple virtual machine (VM) instances. Detect and automatically remove unhealthy VM instances using health checks. Instances that become healthy again are automatically re-added.

How does Google Load Balancer work?

Google’s global load balancer knows where the clients are located and directs packets to the closest web service, providing low latency to users while using a single virtual IP (VIP). Using a single VIP means we can increase the time to live (TTL) of our DNS records, which further reduces latency.

What are the three categories of GCP load balancing?

Google Cloud offers the following load balancing features:

• Single anycast IP address.
• Software-defined load balancing.
• Seamless autoscaling.
• Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.
• External and internal load balancing.
• Global and regional load balancing.
• Advanced feature support.

How does a cloud load balancer work?

Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads and computing resources in a cloud computing environment. Load balancing allows enterprises to manage application or workload demands by allocating resources among multiple computers, networks or servers.

How do I choose a load balancer?

Based on our experience, Incapsula recommends the following best practices and key considerations for IT teams looking to select a load balancing solution:

1. Identify immediate and long term needs.
2. Calculate anticipated loads.
3. High availability (HA)
4. Security concerns.
5. Return on Investment.
6. Total cost of ownership.

What load balancer does Google use?

Maglev
Maglev is Google’s network load balancer. It is a large distributed software system that runs on commodity Linux servers. Unlike traditional hardware network load balancers, it does not require a specialized physical rack deployment, and its capacity can be easily adjusted by adding or removing servers.

Where do you put a load balancer?

Generally your load balancer needs to in a position where it has the ability to terminate connections to your public IPs (assuming you are load-balancing a public-facing site). Your servers can then be hosted using private IP addresses, reachable directly only from the load-balancer.

What is a load balancer example?

Software Load Balancer Examples HAProxy – A TCP load balancer. NGINX – A http load balancer with SSL termination support. Varnish – A reverse proxy based load balancer. Balance – Open source TCP load balancer.