Load balancing
To have an application accessible from the internet you need a load balancer that can route traffic to the application.
The load balancer set up for your environment is {Environment}-public
.
Step 1: Create a new configuration file
Create a new configuration file for load balancing:
StackName: "load-balancing-alb-main"
load-balancing-alb-data.StackName: "load-balancing-alb-main-data"
Internal: false
Name: "main"
Name: "main"
must match the name in load-balancing-alb-main-data.StackName
.
Step 2: Add and install the load-balancing
package
Run the following command in the repo-iac/environments/dev/
directory:
This will add the package you want to install to packages.yml
. If you want to know more about how this works, read the reference documentation for packages.yml
.
Then, run the following command to install the package:
Step 3: Initialize and apply the load-balancing
stacks
ALB are separated into two stacks when creating them.
The first stack is the data stack, which contains data-related resources, this must be applied first.
The second stack is the alb stack, which contains the load balancing set up, route53, etc.
Step 4: Verify
Run the following command:
The output list should contain the name of the load balancer you just created.
Login to the AWS console and navigate to EC2. Select Load Balancers in the left-hand menu.
The list should contain the name of the load balancer you just created.
Commit your files
At this stage it is a good idea to commit your files.
Next step
Set up IAM.