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Exposing services with cloud load balancing

Exposing services with cloud load balancing - Google Cloud Platform Tutorial

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Exposing services with cloud load balancing

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All right, so now we're going to set up a load balancer and we're also going to use Cloud Run. And let's just take a look at some of the commands we're going to run before we get started, because there's quite a few here and we just want to be sure that we cover all these things. So think about, let's just say your app is live, it's up and running, but is it production ready? So this load balancer is going to help you make that jump by unlocking a pro tier features, such as you can use custom SSL domains, global caching, CDNs, Cloud Armor, all kinds of stuff. But the real magic here is going to be number two, where we set up this Network Endpoint Group, and it's a serverless one. As traditional load balancers look for fixed servers, this Network Endpoint Group is basically a smart connector, and it tells the load balancer, hey, don't look for an IP address, look for my auto-scaling Cloud Run service. So once we do that, you're going to have your app fully up and running like a real…

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