Configure a global Cloud Load Balancing backend service in Application Design Center
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The Global Cloud Load Balancing (Backend) component helps you manage load
balancer traffic distribution settings, including the protocol used to connect
to backends, session settings, health checks, and timeouts. These settings
provide fine-grained control over how your load balancer behaves. You can
configure the following backends:
Serverless NEG: A list of serverless Cloud Run or
Cloud Run functions applications as backends.
Managed Instance Group (MIG): A list of Compute Engine instance groups as
backends.
This document describes the connections and parameters you can configure when
using App Design Center to create a global Cloud Load Balancing
backend. The configuration parameters are based on theterraform-google-lb-httpTerraform module.
Component connections
The following table includes the components that you can connect to a global
Cloud Load Balancing backend, and the resulting updates to your application and
its generated Terraform code.
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