Sorry if it is a dumb question, but is the Load balancer really useful here if control plane decides where it has to get executed? What purpose does the Load balancer server more than acting as a proxy may be?
The load balancer would be to select which groundplex node to submit the initial request to. You don’t want to always point to some specific node, as it may be down at any given point for maintenance, etc. The load balancer would send to one of the groundplex nodes that are actually up and accepting requests.
To provide redundancy across all nodes in the Groundplex when a triggered task is invoked, a load balancer can be placed in front of the Groundplex nodes
@tlikarish @cjhoward18 Thank you for this blog post. My understanding is, if we use the Cloud URL then there is no need to setup the “GP_LB” right ? I am saying this because, Control plane has the information of which node is available and least loaded (has resources) to run the task & also has information of whether the task is already cached in the node.
Additionally, do you discourage the triggering of tasks using Cloud URL for security reasons ? If so, how to disable the CloudURL. Thanks in advance
