Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Why and How

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By IOD Expert Samuel James If you’re a person working in DevOps or on a software development team, you’ve probably heard the expression “You build it, you run it,” coined by Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, in 2016.

The benefits of load balancing include the following: When using load balancers in the cloud, you can distribute your workload among several servers, network units, data centers, and cloud providers.

You can use it to route and balance load traffic to your virtual machines.

You can deploy TCP/SSL load balancers globally and use them for managing the overhead of non-HTTP(s) traffic and TCP traffic on specific and well-known ports.

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