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Abiquo 6.0 adds support for This page describes how Abiquo supports load balancers in the Google Cloud Platform.
Abiquo supports regional and global load balancers, with new separate sections in the user interface.
Abiquo supports external and internal load balancers on Google's VPC networks.
The supported load balancer backends include unmanaged instance groups and GCE network endpoint groups.

Abiquo 6.0 adds support for supports load balancers in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). For more details about GCP load balancers, see https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/features

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NOTE: You cannot create target groups in Abiquo of type: MANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP and REGIONAL_MANAGED_INSTANCE_GROUP. However, you can onboard these target groups into Abiquo.

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  • Unmanaged instance group

    • Note that you should enter a Name for the receiving Port, which you will also need to enter in the Load balancer's Routing rule tab

    • And select the Global networkSubnetLocation, and Availability zone of the VMs that you will add to the target group

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  • NetworkEndpointType - GCE IP port

    • RECOMMENDED

    • With this target group, you can load balance addresses and ports in Google Cloud Platform networks 

  • Note: This screenshot shows Internet IP port, which only works with Classic load balancers 

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After you create the target group, you can create a load balancer, in the Location (regional) or Global section.

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In GCP, Abiquo Routing rules represent the Forwarding rule protocol and port + target proxy (if proxy based) + URL map (if HTTP(s)) + backend service.

GCP

Abiquo

Forward rule protocol, port

Routing rule protocol, Port In

Backend service protocol, named port

Routing rule protocol OUT, port name out (for proxy based load balancers)

Backend service backends

Forward action, target groups target of the default conditional action:

Balancing mode:

  • RATE: HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2

  • CONNECTION: SSL, TCP, UDP

See https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service#balancing-mode

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Configure the routing rules of your load balancer in GCP.

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You will need to create a health check for each backend service.

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