To choose the right load balancer, let's have look at the following diagram, which has been provided by Google:
Source: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Let's go through the preceding diagram step by step:
- First, we need to choose whether we want the load balancer to be accessible externally or internally. For external exposure, we choose what traffic we want to balance.
- For HTTP and HTTPS traffic, we use an HTTP(S) load balancer.
- For TCP traffic with an SSL offload, we would go for the SSL proxy. If we don't ...