Services Covered

•  EC2

Lab description

In this lab I will create an Application Load Balancer that will route the traffic to three instances based on path value.

Learning Objectives

• Create Target Groups
• Register instances on Target Groups
• Create an Application Load Balancer
• Associate Auto Scaling groups with Target Groups
• Configure listeners and rules

Lab date

15-11-2021

Prerequisites

• AWS account

Lab steps

1. Navigate to EC2 Dashboard. Create two Auto Scaling groups. One for the dogs group of instances with minimum capacity set to 1, desired: 1 and maximum: 1. In the launch template specify type t2.micro with Amazon Linux 2 AMI (two in the same AZ and one in another). Call them with some convenient name (in my case it’s: main – for requests on the root path, dogs – requests on the /dogs path and cats for /cats path).
   
2. Create a Application Load Balancer. Leave the defaults for scheme, IP address type, VPC and select all AZ’s. Create new security group and allow inbound HTTP traffic from anywhere. Back in ALB creation tab, choose the SG you just created. Create target group for the listener. This will be the TG for root path, you might wanna call it main. Leave the default values and continue to Register targets in next step. Mark the instance called main and include it as pending. Back in the ALB creation tab add that TG to the listener for HTTP protocol om port 80. Then click Create load balancer.
3. Create additional Target Groups. First one called dogs for /dogs path, then cats for /cats path. Don’t register targets yet.
   
4. Edit the ASG for dog group and add the ALB called dogs.
   
   Update the cats ASG with the ALB called accordingly.
5. Navigate to the ALB, and then Listeners and edit rules for dogs and cats accordingly
   
6. Copy the DNS name of the ALB and navigate to that address
   
   Generate some “traffic” by hitting the dogs and cats path.
7. Back in the ALB tab, go to monitoring where you can see the CloudWatch metrics.

Lab files

Acknowledgements

• cloudacademy