Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Port name mapping

This is an option we can utilize. We would use this in conjunction with a load balancer. We will speak about load balancers in the next section. We can specify a port name and associated port number and map incoming traffic to this specific number.

Of course, we also need to specify the instance template we want to use for this managed group. This option is only available if we select a managed instance group under the group type options. We also need to select the number of instances to be deployed by the instance group.

We can select whether we want to turn autoscaling on and off. Autoscaling allows for the dynamic growth or, indeed, deletion of your VM instances as demand increases or decreases. We will also speak more ...