Application Load Balancer Setup for EC2

Tasks

• Set up an Application Load Balancer named xfusion-alb.

• Create a target group named xfusion-tg.

• Create a security group named xfusion-sg to open port 80 for the public.

• Attach this security group to the ALB.

• Configure the ALB to route traffic on port 80 to port 80 of the xfusion-ec2 instance.

• Make necessary changes to the default security group attached to the EC2 instance if needed.

Steps

1. Checkout the ec2 → instance (xfusion-ec2)

2. 

   Select load balancer.

   
3. Create Application Load Balancer

   EC2 → Load balancers → Compare and select load balancer type

   
4. Pick subnet from our ec2

   
5. Name the load balancer.

   
6. Select availability zone, atleast two; one from our ec2 subnet and another any of remaining subnet.

   
7. Create target group.

   

   EC2 → Target groups → Create target group

   • Choose a target type → Instances

     
8. Name the group, xfusion-tg.

   
9. Select Next

10. 

    

    

    Successfully created the target group: xfusion-tg.

11. 

    Now, select a target group.

12. 

    Successfully created load balancer: xfusion-alb

13. 

    Security group (sg-097258aa3bafd5395 | xfusion-sg) was created successfully

    EC2 → Security Groups → sg-097258aa3bafd5395 - xfusion-sg

14. 
15. Let’s config security group on instances to for alb.

    EC2 → Security Groups → sg-05a1bf9fe7738fdb5 - default → Edit inbound rules

    
16. Inbound security group rules successfully modified on security group (sg-05a1bf9fe7738fdb5 | default)

17. 

    Register targets

18. 

    EC2 → Target groups → xfusion-tg → Register targets

19. 

    Register pending targets

20. 

    One target registered successfully to xfusion-tg. And health status is healthy

    
21. We have load balancer now.

22. 

    Now checkout the dns name.

    

    

Boom!! We finally did this: Setting Up an Application Load Balancer for an EC2 Instance. :)

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