Working with the Application Load Balancer
Lab Steps
The hands-on lab is part of these learning paths
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Description
Application Load Balancers support content-based routing, and supports applications that run in containers. They support a pair of industry-standard protocols (WebSocket and HTTP/2), and also provide additional visibility into the health of the target instances and containers. Websites and mobile apps, running in containers or on EC2 instances, will benefit from the use of Application Load Balancers.
Lab Objectives
By the end of this Lab, you should be able to:
- Create Target Groups
- Create an Application Load Balancer
- Associate Auto Scaling groups with Target Groups
- Register instances on Target Groups
- Configure listeners and rules
Lab Prerequisites
This is an intermediate level Lab. In order to follow the next steps, you should be able to:
- Describe and launch EC2 instances
- Describe, create, and configure Security Groups
- Describe and launch Classic Load Balancers
- Describe and launch an Auto Scaling group
- Basic Understanding of the CloudWatch service
If you don't have this knowledge, please refer to these Labs first:
- Creating your first Classic Load Balancer
- Creating your first Auto Scaling group
- Launching Auto Scaling Groups behind a Classic Load Balancer
- Introduction to CloudWatch
Updates
June 12th, 2019 - Updated listener routing rules instructions to match the latest Console experience
January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab
About the Author
Eric Magalhães has a strong background as a Systems Engineer for both Windows and Linux systems and, currently, work as a DevOps Consultant for Embratel. Lazy by nature, he is passionate about automation and anything that can make his job painless, thus his interest in topics like coding, configuration management, containers, CI/CD and cloud computing went from a hobby to an obsession. Currently, he holds multiple AWS certifications and, as a DevOps Consultant, helps clients to understand and implement the DevOps culture in their environments, besides that, he play a key role in the company developing pieces of automation using tools such as Ansible, Chef, Packer, Jenkins and Docker.