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Addressing High Availability Concerns in Google Cloud

In this lab, you will be creating highly available architecture using Google Compute Engine. When addressing concerns of HA, it is important to understand how to design your architecture to resolve points of failure. In the end, you will learn how to create a group of instances to ensure your architecture can handle traffic at all times.

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Clock icon Beginner
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Clock icon 45m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create an Instance Template Configuring Your Instances

    Here is where you will create a simple instance template for an instance residing in US-Central-1 region.

  2. Challenge

    Create an Instance Group from the Template

    Here you will create four instances from the instance template within an instance group.

  3. Challenge

    Create a Load Balancer to Distribute Traffic to the Instances

    Here is where you will create a load balancer and connect it to the instance group as a backend.

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