Hello Tom, I've just came across this section in the gcloud documentation: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/cross-region-example
Isn't this exactly what Yon tried to achieve? Thanks, Razvan marți, 21 iunie 2016, 15:17:59 UTC+3, Tom Walder a scris: > > You cannot load balance between US and EU using "conventional" load > balancing. > > There might be some thoroughly complex way to do it with localised DNS > responses. > > However, it would be 2 distinct App Engine projects. > > To be honest if cross-region load balancing is a need, App Engine is > probably not the right solution. Look at Compute engine instead. > > Tom > > > > > On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 06:36:26 UTC+1, Yon Dev wrote: >> >> Hello Nick, >> >> Thank you for your answer. >> >> I might be misunderstanding something so please correct me if I am wrong. >> >> I can only upload 1 app engine instance per project. So if I want to >> deploy to both the US and EU I will have to create 2 different projects. >> And if I were to create multiple projects, how should I handle my custom >> domain? >> >> To have a single domain I believe I have to use a load balancer, but I >> thought the HTTP load balancer was only available when using Compute Engine >> and not for App Engine? >> And if I were to have to have 2 separate projects I don't think it's >> possible to do load balancing between them, right? >> >> Sincerely, >> Yon >> >> Den tisdag 21 juni 2016 kl. 03:16:11 UTC+9 skrev Nick (Cloud Platform >> Support): >>> >>> Hey Yon, >>> >>> App Engine instances are scaled in zones within the region the >>> application is created in >>> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/console/#create>. If >>> you'd like to follow a pattern which others have made use of, you can >>> deploy another project in the EU to handle traffic there. As you point out, >>> an HTTP Load Balancer is a very useful in this situation, and you can use >>> Container >>> Engine <https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/> to deploy Docker >>> images of your applications, using Custom Runtimes >>> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runtimes/>. >>> >>> I hope this has helped answer your question. Let me know if you have any >>> further questions, and I'll be happy to assist. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Nick >>> Cloud Platform Community Support >>> >>> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 5:13:12 AM UTC-4, Yon Dev wrote: >>>> >>>> I am evaluating whether GAE would be a good fit for an upcoming project. >>>> >>>> I was wondering how scaling across regions work with GAE? If I set my >>>> project location to US and then create an GAE instance and most access to >>>> the GAE is from EU will it automatically scale out to Europe? >>>> Or how does it work? >>>> If it was a on Compute Engine I believe I could have created multiple >>>> instances and then made a HTTP Load Balancer that would route the user to >>>> the closest instance based on proximity. >>>> >>>> https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ >>>> Reading the link above it says that it scales automatically within or >>>> accross multi-regional locations. >>>> What does that mean? Do I have to enable automatic scaling across >>>> regions? If so, how do I do that? >>>> And secondly, if it does handle automatic scaling across regions, the >>>> choice one makes for App engine location when creating a new project, is >>>> that irrelevant for a Google App Engine instance? >>>> >>>> I tried asking on Stackoverflow but without answer so I am turning to >>>> you in hope for an answer. >>>> >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37849433/google-app-engine-multiple-regions >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance, >>>> Yon >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/012c44c3-ef68-4373-ad06-37f84e7a405d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
