Deploy the AWS Elastic Load Balancer

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Now, you are going to deploy a load balancer to distribute incoming traffic to your application across the EC2 Instances. To learn more about AWS Elastic Load Balancer click here
  1. Open application-load-balancer.json on the AWS Cloud9 editor and review the configuration. You will notice that some configurations have placeholder values: %publicSubnet1%, %publicSubnet2%, and %loadBalancerSecurityGroup%.

  2. Execute the following command to populate the configuration file with the Outputs of your CloudFormation stack.

    sed -i.bak -e "s#%publicSubnet1%#$publicSubnet1#g" -e "s#%publicSubnet2%#$publicSubnet2#g" -e "s#%loadBalancerSecurityGroup%#$loadBalancerSecurityGroup#g" application-load-balancer.json
    
  3. Create the application load balancer:

    aws elbv2 create-load-balancer --cli-input-json file://application-load-balancer.json
    
  4. As on upcoming steps we will need the load balancer ARN, execute the following command to load it into an environment variable:

    export LoadBalancerArn=$(aws elbv2 describe-load-balancers --name myEC2Workshop --query LoadBalancers[].LoadBalancerArn --output text)
    
  5. Browse to the Load Balancer console to check out your newly created load balancer.

  6. Open the target-group.json and review the configuration. You will notice a placeholder value for the VPC configuration %vpc%. To populate it from the CloudFormation stack outputs, execute the following command:

    sed -i.bak -e "s#%vpc%#$vpc#g" target-group.json
    
  7. Create the target group:

    aws elbv2 create-target-group --cli-input-json file://target-group.json
    
  8. As you will need the Target Group ARN of the Target Group you have created on an upcoming step, execute the following command to load it on an environment variable:

    export TargetGroupArn=$(aws elbv2 describe-target-groups --names myEC2Workshop --query TargetGroups[].TargetGroupArn --output text)
    
  9. Open modify-target-group.json on the Cloud9 editor and review its configuration. Then, update the value of %TargetGroupArn% with the ARN with the following command:

    sed -i.bak -e "s#%TargetGroupArn%#$TargetGroupArn#g" modify-target-group.json
    
  10. Modify the target group to set the deregistration_delay_timeout to 2 minutes to match the Spot interruption notification time (default is 5 minutes). You will learn how this setting is used when Spot instances are going to be interrupted on the Spot resilience section.

    aws elbv2 modify-target-group-attributes --cli-input-json file://modify-target-group.json
    
  11. Browse to the Target Group console to check out your newly created target group.

  12. Open listener.json and review the configuration. You will notice there are placeholder values for %LoadBalancerArn% and %TargetGroupArn%. To populate them with the Load Balancer and Target group created previously, execute the following command.

    sed -i.bak -e "s#%LoadBalancerArn%#$LoadBalancerArn#g" -e "s#%TargetGroupArn%#$TargetGroupArn#g" listener.json
    
  13. Create the listener with the following command:

    aws elbv2 create-listener --cli-input-json file://listener.json
    
  14. Browse to the Load Balancer console to check out your newly created listener by selecting your load balancer and clicking on the Listeners tab.