What is a Load Balancer?

Are you interested in learning how to easily handle huge spikes in demand? Google Cloud Load Balancers can intelligently distribute your network traffic across a group of backend servers. This allows you to build geographically distributed services that support automatic scaling and failover.

Learning Objectives

• Understand what a cloud load balancer is.
• Learn about the different types of load balancers available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Know how to configure a cloud load balancer.
• Understand how to access the logs and monitoring dashboards.

Intended Audience

• Cloud, Network, or Security Engineers.
• Cloud Architects.
• Anyone preparing for a Google Cloud certification.

Prerequisites

• Understand basic networking concepts (like network layers, protocols, and ports).
• Access to a GCP account.