Route Traffic to Multiple Target Groups using Load Balancer Listener Rules | AWS Load Balancing

For that, you’ll need to work with multiple target groups, setting up listener rules to route traffic to the appropriate place.

In this hands-on tutorial, I’ll walk you through how set up a load balancer that uses two target groups. The load balancer will route traffic based on listener rules that we’ll define.

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00:00 – Overviewing the load balancer we’ll be building together
01:49 – Explaining the setup for the EC2 Instances
03:39 - Creating two target groups through the AWS Console
05:04 – Creating the application load balancer with a default HTTP listener
08:50 – Adding load balancer listener rules to route to a second target group
10:05 - Overviewing all six listener rule condition types (host-header, path-pattern, http-header, http-request-method, query-string, source-ip), with examples
11:14 - Creating a listener rule for query-string, forwarding to a second target group
13:03 – Creating a listener rule for http-header and User-Agent, forwarding to a second target group
14:40 – Editing and deleting listener rules
15:05 - Creating a listener rule for my source-ip, returning a fixed response for 403 forbidden
16:48 – IMPORTANT! Deleting your load balancer, target groups and EC2 instances

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[romihans]

Thanks for a clear and lucid explanation of using target groups with ALBs. Helped me clear up some doubts on using more than one target group

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