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Aim: ELB (ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER)
ELB service is under compute category.
It is available at "EC2DASHBOARD".
If a website has maximum users as 1000 per a request, if simultaneously 2000 users
are requesting the same server, then 1000 must wait until completion of 1000 so we
use ELB for creating multiple servers for same request.
Requirements:
Launch an EC2 instance using UBUNTU AMI, in default -VPC within subnet-1
(US_EAST_1A)
Launch an EC2 instance using AMAZON-LINUX AMI in default -VPC within subnet-1
(US-EAST-1B)
Create load balancer & target group
Steps:
1. In compute category ec2 scroll down and click on load balancers
2. We will get 0 load balancers that means in north Virginia area we don't have any load
balancers
3. We have 4 types of load balancers
1. Application Load Balancer
2. Network Load Balancer chosen
3. Gateway Load Balancer
4. Classic Load Balancer
Due to more load on the server exceeding of its capacity we get server down, server busy,
server error so we use Elastic Load Balancer.
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1. Choosing NLB (NETWORK LOAD BALANCER)
2. Basic configuration
Load balancer name: MYELB (gets request from internet facing)
Scheme: INTERNET-FACING
Load balancer IP address: IPV4
3. Network mapping
VPC: DEAULT-VPC
Availability Zones and subnets
Select 1A and 1B
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Internet
MYELB
N. Virginia
Default-VPC
Subnet1 Subnet2
1a 1b
4. http is the listener here (Listeners and routing)
5. servers are routing
6. Target group:
We need to create a target group firstly
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Specifying group details:
Basic configuration
Target type: instances
Target name: MYTARGET
VPC: default
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Click on include as pending below and then click on create target group button.
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After a min we can observer status as active from provisioning.
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