Using HTTP(s)/Network load balancer to split traffic between versions

[Niklas B]

Hi,

I would like to use a similar function as GAE's traffic splitting. This would allow us to route X% of the traffic to one version of the site, and X% to another and gradually move more and more traffic to the new version.

However I can't find any documentation on how one might do this, specially since it should preferably be "sticky" (but the network load balancer can help with stickiness.

I realize I can use Nginx split traffic module, but I will need to do this across quite a few instances, applications and even google compute engine projects - thus manually editing config files is out I'm afraid.

Regards,
Niklas

[George]

Hello Niklas,

You can distribute traffic to different instances based on the incoming URL, by configuring the Load Balancer to do so. You can have more information about this matter, in this Help Center article.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,

George

[Niklas B]

Hi George,

Very true - however for my case it's a user facing website which has the same URL regardless of version :/

Regards,

Niklas

[George]

Hello Niklas,

In this case using Nginx as you mentioned is a valid workaround. I was able to find this post that can help you accomplish your configuration.

As this feature is not available on GCE, I would highly recommend you to file a feature request that you can submit on this specific forum.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

George

[Niklas B]

Great, thank you. For someone else wondering/wanting the same thing I've added a feature request on https://code.google.com/p/google-compute-engine/issues/detail?id=268

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