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Target groups provide a flexible way to manage load balancing nodes or targets.

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titleClick here to display details of create target group general info GCP

As there are many types of target groups in Google Cloud, this page provides examples of two examples of target group types: instance groups and network endpoint groups.

Note

In the platform, you cannot create target groups of these types:

  • MANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP
  • REGIONAL_MANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP

But Abiquo onboards all target groups from GCP


Unmanaged instance group example

Field

Value

Name

The Name of the target group. Google Cloud Platform will only accept the following characters: a-z, 0-9 and "-", and you cannot modify the name

Type

For a typical load balancer with VMs attached, create an UNMANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP.

  • The other fields in this table are for an UNMANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP
Named ports

Enter a port Name to identify each Port in the target group. Keep the names to enter them in load balancers

Global networkThe network that the VMs in the unmanaged instance group will use
SubnetA subnet of the global network that the VMs in the unmanaged instance group will belong to

Location

The public cloud region that the VMs will belong to in the global network
Availability zoneThe availability zone to use in the global network


GCE IP port target group example

(warning) Abiquo recommends GCE_IP_PORT target groups. This screenshot shows an INTERNET_IP_PORT target group. The INTERNET_IP_PORT target group is only available with classic load balancers.

Field

Value

Name

The Name of the target group. GCP will only accept the following characters: a-z, 0-9 and "-", and you cannot modify the name

Type

GCE_IP_PORT represents a Network Endpoint Group in GCP. It will load balance GCE IP addresses at the given port

Port

The Port for communicating with the load balanced nodes


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Screenshot: Create target group Health health check AWS

Screenshot: Create target group Health health check OCI. In OCI each target group must have its own health check.

For more details see:

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titleClick here to display details of create target group health check (for AWS and OCI)


Field

Value

Name

Name of the health check

Common protocols

Select one of the most common protocols to load presets

Protocol

The protocol with which the health check will be performed

Port

The port to which the health check will be performed

Path

The server path to check.

Status code
  • OCI only: a request to the path of a healthy node will return this status code
Response body
  • OCI only: Optional; a request to the path of a healthy node will return this response body
Interval (sec)The interval in seconds between health checks
Timeout (sec)The timeout in seconds after which an attempted health check will be considered unsuccessful
AttemptsThe number of attempts before the health check will be considered unsuccessful



Target group targets

In AWS, when you create the target group you can add targets.

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