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John Parker
John Parker

Reputation: 1

High availability using cloud load balancing

I am looking for the best way to achieve high availability for my organizations applications. Since they contain sensitive information, the applications must reside inside my organizations data centers.

I was thinking of using Google load balancing to direct requests to my servers, but I don't think they can be pointed at external servers, just Google VMs. Does anyone know if that's true?

My other thought was that I could use Google load balancing to point to Google VMs running Nginx and have that load balance between my data centers. Does anyone know if that is feasible? Under this scenario, can I terminate SSL on my servers, or does it have to terminate at the Google VM?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (1)

JasonS
JasonS

Reputation: 7733

Unfortunately, you are correct: You cannot use Google Cloud's Network load-balancing with external servers.

You could do your second option, but I'd strongly suggest you reconsider the approach: too many moving parts, and for what benefit? If a server goes down you lose session state anyway, so maybe it'd be better for you to use DNS load balancing instead.

FYI I use Google LoadBalancing and AutoScaling, it works pretty good, but not perfect (frequent 502 burps), which is probably why it's still in "Beta".

Upvotes: 1

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