1. Introduction

This article explains about to handle Scalability and High Availability using an HTTP Load Balancer in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

GCP has many in-built pre-defined components for every requirement. Here few components are taken to enable scalability and high availability, those are VM instances, Instance templates, Instance Groups, Health Checks, and a Firewall.

2. Case Study

One simple case study has been taken for this requirement. Install the Apache HTTP Server in VM Instance at GCP, it can be a single region or multiple regions. …