Manage Application Load Balancers

Abiquo supports AWS Application load balancers. Application load balancers can send traffic to target groups, which contain IP addresses or VMs. Abiquo also continues to support Classic load balancers. See Manage Load Balancers

For a full description of Application load balancers, see the Amazon documentation at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html.

An application load balancer requires:

1. At least one target group, which will receive traffic from the default conditional action
2. At least two public subnets (with an Internet gateway) in different availability zones. See Create a private network.

You should create these elements before you create an application load balancer.

In AWS an Application load balancer sends traffic to a target group by default. You can create multiple target groups for each load balancer.

Before you begin:

1. Create targets, which may include subnets and IP addresses, or VMs 

To create an target group:

1. Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters → select a virtual datacenter in AWS → Network → Load balancing → Target groups
2. Click the + add button

3. Enter the target group details and assign targets as described below

4. Click Save

Target group General info

For more details see GUI Create target group General info

Target group Health check

For more details see GUI Create target group Health check

Target group Targets

For more details see GUI Create target group Targets

Before you begin:

1. Synchronize your virtual datacenters (including VMs, networks, firewalls, firewall rules, and load balancers)
2. Create firewall policies for your VMs that allow your load balancers to access the VMs
3. Create a target group with VMs or IP addresses
4. Create subnets in at least two different availability zones

To create an application load balancer:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → select a virtual datacenter → Network → Load balancing → Target groups
2. Click the + add button to create a target group and complete the dialogs following the AWS documentation
3. Go to Load balancing → Load balancers

4. Click the + add button and complete the dialogs following the AWS documentation

Application load balancer general information

For more details see GUI Create load balancer App General info

Application load balancer routing rules

For more details see GUI Create load balancer App Routing rules

Application load balancer SSL certificate

For more details see GUI Add a new certificate

Application load balancer firewalls

For more details see GUI Create load balancer App Firewalls

When you create an Application load balancer, each routing rule will redirect all traffic to the default target group. After you create a load balancer, you can edit it and modify the routing rules to manage the conditional actions.

To edit an application load balancer:

1. Go to myCloud view and select a virtual datacenter
2. Go to Networks and select an application load balancer
3. Click the pencil Edit button
   
   

For more details see GUI Edit load balancer App Conditional actions