AWS Elastic Load Balancing Operations

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External

Internal

Create a Network Load Balancer

Go to Amazon EC2 console -> Load Balancers -> Create Load Balancer -> Network Load Balancer.

Basic Configuration

Name: playground-internal-lb. See Load Balancer Name.

Scheme: internal/internet-facing: internal.

Listeners

There's a default tcp:80 listener.

Availability Zones

Allows specifying the VPC and subnets within the VPC.

Security Settings

Return here.

Configure Routing

If this load balancer is created to service ECS FARGATE containers that have not been defined yet, that is fine, the target groups will be created during the ECS Service creation process.

Target Group

Target Group: New target group

Name: themysicira

Target type: Instance

Protocol: TCP

Port: 10001

Health Checks

Return here.

Register Targets

Registered Targets

Instances

If the load balancer is created before the ECS deployments, how do I select those?

Create an Application Load Balancer