Create a Load Balancer
To create a load balancer:
- Navigate to the Load Balancers page on the EC2 Dashboard in the AWS console.
- Select Create Load Balancer at the top left of the page.
- Select Application Load Balancer as the load balancer type to terminate SSL at the ELB.
- Enter a name for the new load balancer, and select HTTPS (Secure HTTP) as the load balancer protocol to accept HTTPS traffic only.
- Select the availability zones to enable for the new load balancer. It should include the availability zone in which the Controller Appserver EC2 instance resides.
- Select the certificate that was imported to the ACM.
- Specify the security group.
- For the initial configuration, set the load balancer to route all traffic to port 8090 using HTTP, and define the standard health check for the Controller.
- Add the Controller EC2 instance as a registered target.
- Launch the new load balancer. It may take a few minutes before the load balance occurs.
- Verify that you can access the Controller UI through the load balancer.Note: If your SSL cert is self-signed, a browser warning displays. You can ignore this warning if you are testing the UI. However for Agent traffic, you need a valid certificate that is trusted by the Agent.