net-lb-app-ext-regional

External Regional Application Load Balancer Module

This module allows managing External Regional HTTP/HTTPS Application Load Balancers. It's designed to expose the full configuration of the underlying resources, and to facilitate common usage patterns by providing sensible defaults, and optionally managing prerequisite resources like health checks, instance groups, etc.

Due to the complexity of the underlying resources, changes to the configuration that involve recreation of resources are best applied in stages, starting by disabling the configuration in the urlmap that references the resources that need recreation, then doing the same for the backend service, etc.

The variable space of this module closely mirrors that of net-lb-app-ext, with the exception of certain features not supported by the regional version. These unsupported features include GCS backends and Internet NEGs, among others. For a comprehensive overview of feature disparities, please consult the load balancer feature comparison matrix.

Examples

• Examples
  • Minimal HTTP Example
  • Minimal HTTPS examples
    • HTTP backends
    • HTTPS backends
    • HTTP to HTTPS redirect
  • Health Checks
  • Backend Types and Management
    • Instance Groups
    • Managed Instance Groups
    • Zonal NEG creation
    • Hybrid NEG creation
    • Private Service Connect NEG creation
    • Serverless NEG creation
    • Cross Project Backend
  • URL Map
  • Complex example
• Deploying changes to load balancer configurations
• Files
• Variables
• Outputs
• Fixtures

Minimal HTTP Example

An HTTP load balancer with a backend service pointing to a GCE instance group:

module "glb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id },
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-c.group.id }
      ]
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=9 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Minimal HTTPS examples

HTTP backends

An HTTPS load balancer needs a certificate and backends can be HTTP or HTTPS. Regional external application load balancers don't support managed certificates, so you have to provide the certificate and private key manually as shown below:

resource "tls_private_key" "default" {
  algorithm = "RSA"
  rsa_bits  = 2048
}

resource "tls_self_signed_cert" "default" {
  private_key_pem = tls_private_key.default.private_key_pem
  subject {
    common_name  = "example.com"
    organization = "ACME Examples, Inc"
  }
  validity_period_hours = 720
  allowed_uses = [
    "key_encipherment",
    "digital_signature",
    "server_auth",
  ]
}

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id },
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-c.group.id }
      ]
      protocol = "HTTP"
    }
  }
  protocol = "HTTPS"
  ssl_certificates = {
    create_configs = {
      default = {
        # certificate and key could also be read via file() from external files
        certificate = tls_self_signed_cert.default.cert_pem
        private_key = tls_private_key.default.private_key_pem
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=12 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

HTTPS backends

For HTTPS backends the backend service protocol needs to be set to HTTPS. The port name if omitted is inferred from the protocol, in this case it is set internally to https. The health check also needs to be set to https. This is a complete example:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id },
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-c.group.id }
      ]
      protocol = "HTTPS"
    }
  }
  health_check_configs = {
    default = {
      https = {
        port_specification = "USE_SERVING_PORT"
      }
    }
  }
  protocol = "HTTPS"
  ssl_certificates = {
    create_configs = {
      default = {
        certificate = tls_self_signed_cert.default.cert_pem
        private_key = tls_private_key.default.private_key_pem
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=12 fixtures=fixtures/ssl-certificate.tf,fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

HTTP to HTTPS redirect

Redirect is implemented via an additional HTTP load balancer with a custom URL map, similarly to how it's done via the GCP Console. The address shared by the two load balancers needs to be reserved.

module "addresses" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-address"
  project_id = var.project_id
  external_addresses = {
    "ralb-test-0" = {
      region = var.region
      tier   = "STANDARD"
    }
  }
}

module "ralb-test-0-redirect" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0-redirect"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  address = (
    module.addresses.external_addresses["ralb-test-0"].id
  )
  health_check_configs = {}
  urlmap_config = {
    description = "URL redirect for ralb-test-0."
    default_url_redirect = {
      https         = true
      response_code = "MOVED_PERMANENTLY_DEFAULT"
    }
  }
}

module "ralb-test-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  address = (
    module.addresses.external_addresses["ralb-test-0"].id
  )
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id },
      ]
      protocol = "HTTP"
    }
  }
  protocol = "HTTPS"
  ssl_certificates = {
    create_configs = {
      default = {
        certificate = tls_self_signed_cert.default.cert_pem
        private_key = tls_private_key.default.private_key_pem
      }
    }
  }
}

# tftest modules=5 resources=16 fixtures=fixtures/ssl-certificate.tf,fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Health Checks

You can leverage externally defined health checks for backend services, or have the module create them for you.

By default a simple HTTP health check named default is created and used in backend services. If you need to override the default, simply define your own health check using the same key (default). For more complex configurations you can define your own health checks and reference them via keys in the backend service configurations.

Health checks created by this module are controlled via the health_check_configs variable, which behaves in a similar way to other LB modules in this repository. This is an example that overrides the default health check configuration using a TCP health check:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [{
        backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id
      }]
      # no need to reference the hc explicitly when using the `default` key
      # health_checks = ["default"]
    }
  }
  health_check_configs = {
    default = {
      tcp = { port = 80 }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=9 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

To leverage existing health checks without having the module create them, simply pass their self links to backend services and set the health_check_configs variable to an empty map:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [{
        backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id
      }]
      health_checks = ["projects/${var.project_id}/regions/${var.region}/healthChecks/custom"]
    }
  }
  health_check_configs = {}
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=8 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf

Backend Types and Management

Instance Groups

The module can optionally create unmanaged instance groups, which can then be referred to in backends via their key. This is the simple HTTP example above but with instance group creation managed by the module:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = "default-b" }
      ]
    }
  }
  group_configs = {
    default-b = {
      zone = "${var.region}-b"
      instances = [
        module.compute-vm-group-b.id
      ]
      named_ports = { http = 80 }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=10 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Managed Instance Groups

This example shows how to use the module with a manage instance group as backend:

module "win-template" {
  source          = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id      = var.project_id
  zone            = "${var.region}-a"
  name            = "win-template"
  instance_type   = "n2d-standard-2"
  create_template = true
  boot_disk = {
    initialize_params = {
      image = "projects/windows-cloud/global/images/windows-server-2019-dc-v20221214"
      size  = 70
    }
  }
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
    nat        = false
    addresses  = null
  }]
}

module "win-mig" {
  source            = "./fabric/modules/compute-mig"
  project_id        = var.project_id
  location          = "${var.region}-a"
  name              = "win-mig"
  instance_template = module.win-template.template.self_link
  autoscaler_config = {
    max_replicas    = 3
    min_replicas    = 1
    cooldown_period = 30
    scaling_signals = {
      cpu_utilization = {
        target = 0.80
      }
    }
  }
  named_ports = {
    http = 80
  }
}

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = module.win-mig.group_manager.instance_group }
      ]
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=8 e2e

Zonal NEG creation

Supported Network Endpoint Groups (NEGs) can also be used as backends. Similarly to groups, you can pass a self link for existing NEGs or have the module manage them for you.

This example shows how to create and manage zonal NEGs using GCE VMs as endpoints:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        {
          backend        = "neg-0"
          balancing_mode = "RATE"
          max_rate       = { per_endpoint = 10 }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
  neg_configs = {
    neg-0 = {
      gce = {
        network    = var.vpc.self_link
        subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
        zone       = "${var.region}-b"
        endpoints = {
          e-0 = {
            instance   = "my-ig-b"
            ip_address = module.compute-vm-group-b.internal_ip
            port       = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=11 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Hybrid NEG creation

This example shows how to create and manage hybrid NEGs:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        {
          backend        = "neg-0"
          balancing_mode = "RATE"
          max_rate       = { per_endpoint = 10 }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
  neg_configs = {
    neg-0 = {
      hybrid = {
        network = var.vpc.self_link
        zone    = "${var.region}-b"
        endpoints = {
          e-0 = {
            ip_address = "10.0.0.10"
            port       = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=7 e2e

Private Service Connect NEG creation

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = "neg-0" }
      ]
      health_checks = []
    }
  }
  # with a single PSC NEG the implied default health check is not needed
  health_check_configs = {}
  neg_configs = {
    neg-0 = {
      psc = {
        region         = var.region
        target_service = "${var.region}-cloudkms.googleapis.com"
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=5 e2e

Serverless NEG creation

The module supports managing Serverless NEGs for Cloud Run and Cloud Function. This is an example of a Cloud Run NEG:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = "neg-0" }
      ]
      health_checks = []
    }
  }
  # with a single serverless NEG the implied default health check is not needed
  health_check_configs = {}
  neg_configs = {
    neg-0 = {
      cloudrun = {
        region = var.region
        target_service = {
          name = "hello"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=5 e2e

Cross Project Backend

The module supports Cross Project Backends. This is an example of a referencing to a Backend in another project:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region

  backend_service_configs = {
    my_backend = {
      project_id = "backend_project_id" #Specify the project ID where the backend resides

      backends = [
        {
          backend = "neg-0"
        }
      ]
      health_checks = []
    }
  }
  urlmap_config = {
    default_service = "ralb-test-0-my_backend"
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=5 

URL Map

The module exposes the full URL map resource configuration, with some minor changes to the interface to decrease verbosity, and support for aliasing backend services via keys.

The default URL map configuration sets the default backend service as the default service for the load balancer as a convenience. Just override the urlmap_config variable to change the default behaviour:

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [{
        backend = module.compute-vm-group-b.group.id
      }]
    }
    other = {
      backends = [{
        backend = module.compute-vm-group-c.group.id
      }]
    }
  }
  urlmap_config = {
    default_service = "default"
    host_rules = [{
      hosts        = ["*"]
      path_matcher = "pathmap"
    }]
    path_matchers = {
      pathmap = {
        default_service = "default"
        path_rules = [{
          paths   = ["/other", "/other/*"]
          service = "other"
        }]
      }
    }
  }
}

# tftest modules=3 resources=10 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Complex example

This example mixes group and NEG backends, and shows how to set HTTPS for specific backends.

module "ralb-0" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/net-lb-app-ext-regional"
  project_id = var.project_id
  name       = "ralb-test-0"
  vpc        = var.vpc.self_link
  region     = var.region
  backend_service_configs = {
    default = {
      backends = [
        { backend = "group-zone-b" },
        { backend = "group-zone-c" },
      ]
    }
    neg-gce-0 = {
      backends = [{
        balancing_mode = "RATE"
        backend        = "neg-zone-c"
        max_rate       = { per_endpoint = 10 }
      }]
    }
    neg-hybrid-0 = {
      backends = [{
        balancing_mode = "RATE"
        backend        = "neg-hello"
        max_rate       = { per_endpoint = 10 }
      }]
      health_checks = ["neg"]
      protocol      = "HTTPS"
    }
  }
  group_configs = {
    group-zone-b = {
      zone = "${var.region}-b"
      instances = [
        module.compute-vm-group-b.id
      ]
      named_ports = { http = 80 }
    }
    group-zone-c = {
      zone = "${var.region}-c"
      instances = [
        module.compute-vm-group-c.id
      ]
      named_ports = { http = 80 }
    }
  }
  health_check_configs = {
    default = {
      http = {
        port = 80
      }
    }
    neg = {
      https = {
        host = "hello.example.com"
        port = 443
      }
    }
  }
  neg_configs = {
    neg-zone-c = {
      gce = {
        network    = var.vpc.self_link
        subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
        zone       = "${var.region}-c"
        endpoints = {
          e-0 = {
            instance   = "my-ig-c"
            ip_address = module.compute-vm-group-c.internal_ip
            port       = 80
          }
        }
      }
    }
    neg-hello = {
      hybrid = {
        network = var.vpc.self_link
        zone    = "${var.region}-b"
        endpoints = {
          e-0 = {
            ip_address = "192.168.0.3"
            port       = 443
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  urlmap_config = {
    default_service = "default"
    host_rules = [
      {
        hosts        = ["*"]
        path_matcher = "gce"
      },
      {
        hosts        = ["hello.example.com"]
        path_matcher = "hello"
      },
      {
        hosts        = ["static.example.com"]
        path_matcher = "static"
      }
    ]
    path_matchers = {
      gce = {
        default_service = "default"
        path_rules = [
          {
            paths   = ["/gce-neg", "/gce-neg/*"]
            service = "neg-gce-0"
          }
        ]
      }
      hello = {
        default_service = "neg-hybrid-0"
      }
      static = {
        default_service = "neg-gce-0"
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=3 resources=18 fixtures=fixtures/compute-vm-group-bc.tf e2e

Deploying changes to load balancer configurations

For deploying changes to load balancer configuration please refer to net-lb-app-ext README.md

Files

name	description	resources
backend-service.tf	Backend service resources.	google_compute_region_backend_service
groups.tf	None	google_compute_instance_group
health-check.tf	Health check resource.	google_compute_region_health_check
main.tf	Module-level locals and resources.	google_compute_forwarding_rule · google_compute_region_ssl_certificate · google_compute_region_target_http_proxy · google_compute_region_target_https_proxy
negs.tf	NEG resources.	google_compute_network_endpoint · google_compute_network_endpoint_group · google_compute_region_network_endpoint_group
outputs.tf	Module outputs.
urlmap.tf	URL map resources.	google_compute_region_url_map
variables-backend-service.tf	Backend services variables.
variables-health-check.tf	Health check variable.
variables-urlmap.tf	URLmap variable.
variables.tf	Module variables.
versions.tf	Version pins.

Variables

name	description	type	required	default
name	Load balancer name.	string	✓
project_id	Project id.	string	✓
region	Region where the load balancer is created.	string	✓
vpc	VPC-level configuration.	string	✓
address	Optional IP address used for the forwarding rule.	string		null
backend_service_configs	Backend service level configuration.	map(object({…}))		{}
description	Optional description used for resources.	string		"Terraform managed."
group_configs	Optional unmanaged groups to create. Can be referenced in backends via key or outputs.	map(object({…}))		{}
health_check_configs	Optional auto-created health check configurations, use the output self-link to set it in the auto healing policy. Refer to examples for usage.	map(object({…}))		{…}
https_proxy_config	HTTPS proxy connfiguration.	object({…})		{}
labels	Labels set on resources.	map(string)		{}
neg_configs	Optional network endpoint groups to create. Can be referenced in backends via key or outputs.	map(object({…}))		{}
ports	Optional ports for HTTP load balancer, valid ports are 80 and 8080.	list(string)		null
protocol	Protocol supported by this load balancer.	string		"HTTP"
ssl_certificates	SSL target proxy certificates (only if protocol is HTTPS) for existing, custom, and managed certificates.	object({…})		{}
urlmap_config	The URL map configuration.	object({…})		{…}

Outputs

name	description	sensitive
address	Forwarding rule address.
backend_service_ids	Backend service resources.
backend_service_names	Backend service resource names.
forwarding_rule	Forwarding rule resource.
group_ids	Autogenerated instance group ids.
health_check_ids	Autogenerated health check ids.
id	Fully qualified forwarding rule id.
neg_ids	Autogenerated network endpoint group ids.

Fixtures

• compute-vm-group-bc.tf
• ssl-certificate.tf