Chapter 10: Addressing Scalability and Availability
We have taken our first steps into the cloud with our initial infrastructure architecture, implementing virtual machines and a virtual private cloud. We will now extend that architecture and address scalability and availability concerns.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Designing for scalability and availability
- Using instance templates
- Using managed instance groups
- Using an HTTP(S) load balancer
Technical Requirements
In this chapter, we will set up our three-tier web application to autoscale and ensure its availability to protect against zonal failures by using a regional managed instance group. Our frontend Tomcat application is stateless and hence works well with ...
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