Steps To Create Application Load Balancer in AWS

In this article we will go through aws Application Load Balancer and how to create aws application load balancer. As the term defines, an application load balancer is nothing but which manages the Load(traffic) of the application and makes the application running smoothly and highly available.

Steps to Create Application Load balancer:

1→ first step is to make sure that you have more than one instance running in the region. For these ec2 instances we will create application load balancer. Multiple instance running in different availability zone are preserved.

2 → If you met the above prerequisite then in the next step choose the region in which you want to make the application load balancer. Go to the EC2 service and in the left panel you can click on the Load balancer option.

3→  After clicking on the Load balancer as shown above, you will be landed to another page. Here you can create the load balancer as shown in the image below.

 

4→ Click on the create Load balancer as shown above and then choose the option Application load balancer as shown in the image below.

5→  After clicking on the create button, you will land on another page that would ask for the name of the load balancer and what type of application load balancer you want to create.

In continuation to this it would ask more things in the configuration as shown.

You can choose the instances you want choose listeners and the availability zones of your choice.

Configure security Groups

6 → In the next step, you can configure the security settings needed for the load balancer.

You can select the existing group or create a new one.

Configure Routing

7 → in the next step you need to specify the routings for target group and health checks as shown in the image below.

Add Instances

9 → In the next step add the listeners and add the instances. Here which you wanted to load to balance the traffic off.

10 → After reviewing all the steps click on create and you will see that LoadBalancer is created with the desired configurations.

 

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