Multi-Cluster Load Balancing with GKE

One of the features I like the most about GCP is the external HTTP(S) Load Balancing. This is a global load balancer which gives you a single anycast IP address (no DNS load balancing needed, yeey!). Requests enter the Google’s global network at one of the edge points of presence (POPs) close to the user, and are proxied to the closest region with available capacity. This results in highly available, globally distributed, scalable and fully managed load balancing setup. Let’s get familiar with the GCP Load Balancing components in the first part, and we will setup load balancing across two GKE clusters step by step in the second. …