Also read HTTPs External Load Balancer in GCP
What is External SSL Proxy Load Balancing?
It is primarily for SSL initiated traffic from the internet to GCP VMs.
- It is a reverse proxy, layer 4 LB that distributes SSL traffic coming from the internet to VM instances on GCP.
- Supports SSL offload where user SSL (TLS) connections are terminated at the load balancing layer, and then proxied to the closest available backend instances by using either SSL or TCP.
- supports global load balancing service with the Premium Tier
- supports regional load balancing service with the Standard Tier
