Reblaze can be deployed via two main marketplaces: GCP, AWS and soon, Azure. In the future, with growing demand, the Reblaze solution will be added to other cloud computing platforms. Of course, Reblaze managed services is offered to you as well.

These guides will walk you through the process from the first "Launch" click on the marketplace until Reblaze is successfully deployed and protecting your website. We offer our help at any step of the process at support@reblaze.com.

Coming soon: Azure

This guide will walk you through the process from the first access of the marketplace until Reblaze is successfully deployed and protecting your website. We offer our help at any step of the process at support@reblaze.com.

Before doing your first deployment, we suggest that you watch these videos to better understand the onboarding and deployment process.

• Reblaze from the AWS Marketplace: Initial Deployment

• Reblaze from a Marketplace Deployment: Defining Sites and Web Applications

• Reblaze from the AWS Marketplace: Routing Traffic

The process for onboarding Reblaze in AWS includes the following steps:

1. Deploy Reblaze

2. Configure the Reblaze Platform

3. Set Up a Load Balancer

Last steps

Route your traffic to the load balancer

At this point, your deployment and setup are complete. Now you should test if your website works correctly when routing traffic to the Reblaze deployment. Perform offline testing by modifying your hosts file to point your website to the new load balancer. If you see that you are returned to your website, routing via Reblaze is working correctly.

The last remaining step is to route your traffic to the load balancer, which will send it to your Reblaze instance(s). Reblaze will scrub the traffic and forward it on to your servers. To setup this routing, set your DNS record to the IP address that is resolved from the load balancer DNS Name.

Activate Reblaze traffic filtering

Initially, Reblaze is setup for report-only mode. Assuming that this option was not changed, then Reblaze is not yet filtering your traffic; it is merely reporting on what it would have filtered had it been set up in active mode. This gives you an opportunity to fine-tune Reblaze’s configuration before any of your traffic is actually affected. When you are comfortable with the reporting results, move the application to Active mode and publish the change, as described in Configure the Reblaze Platform.

Going Forward: Customizing Reblaze

As you might notice from looking through the interface, the Reblaze web security platform is both powerful and highly customizable, with the ability to be fine-tuned for your specific needs. However, it is beyond the scope of this document to describe this customization process. Furthermore, a full and correct customization is often rather daunting for new users.

For more information on using Reblaze, see the user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/.

We at Reblaze Technologies want you to have the best experience possible with the platform, so that you will enjoy the full benefits of comprehensive, intelligent, and effortless web security. Therefore, please feel free to contact support at support@reblaze.com, for further one- on-one assistance in setting up your deployment. We’re available 24 hours per day to assist you.

Once you have completed the deployment process, this section will guide you through the process to complete the site setup and link your web applications to Reblaze.

Specify the Web Assets

1. Log into Reblaze. Enter your email address and password, and click the envelope icon to receive a one-time password (OTP). The OTP will go to the telephone number you gave when you created your login account.

2. Enter the OTP and click Log In. Your Reblaze dashboard appears.

3. From the navigation panel, go to Settings > Planet Overview. This shows all the sites and web applications defined within Reblaze. Note: Since the initial setup of a site or application is prone to error, Reblaze lets you create a new application only by copying an existing application and then editing the results. A new Reblaze deployment includes a default application for this purpose.

Click Duplicate on the row of the default application.

5. Enter the name of the new site or application.

6. Click Duplicate. The new site/application is created and opened for editing.

We will use the default Reblaze settings when appropriate.

• A note on load balancing: Please note that the load balancing parameters shown here are separate from the load balancer that you will set up in Set Up a Load Balancer. The load balancing within Reblaze (which is defined here) is done to distribute scrubbed traffic across the servers within your network. The load balancing outside of Reblaze will dynamically create new instances of Reblaze as needed, in response to spikes of incoming traffic which has not yet been scrubbed. For more details about Reblaze settings, see Reblaze Deployment Terminology in the Reblaze user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/

7. Under Host, enter the IP address for the upstream server. This is the server that Reblaze will sent the traffic after the traffic is scrubbed.

8. To add additional servers, click Add and enter the IP address for each one.

9. In the Domain Names box, enter the domain aliases for this site or application. Wild cards can be used.

10. (optional) To redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS, copy the return 301 https... command as described on the page into the HTTP Redirect Line box.

11. Click Save Changes.

12. You will be prompted to publish your changes to the cloud. Close the popup box and click Publish Changes. Important: After publishing, there will be a message at the bottom that the changes are being published to the cloud. Do not refresh or leave this page until the publishing process is finished.

13. By default, a new application is set to report only mode. In this mode, Reblaze does not filter any traffic. It only reports on traffic that would have been filtered if it were in active mode. This is useful if you want to test or fine-tune an application or new deployment. To move an application to active mode, click the REPORT button to toggle it to ACTIVE mode, and then publish the change.

The initial configuration of Reblaze is now complete. For the full set of configuration parameters, see the Reblaze user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/.

Continue to Set up a Load Balancer for Traffic Routing

Select the Deployment

1. Go to the AWS Marketplace at .

2. If you already have an AWS account, sign in to your account. Otherwise, you will have to create an account at .

3. Search for Reblaze.

There are two Reblaze deployments available:

1. Select the result for a SAAS contract (in above screen, the second result)

2. Review the pricing information, if you wish

Go to the top of the page and select Continue to Subscribe

Now, select the Reblaze contract and time period which best fits your needs. Then click on Create contract at the top of the page.

4. AWS will ask you to confirm your contract. To continue, click Pay now.

AWS will inform you that you have subscribed. Now click Setup your account.

Reblaze License Manager

Following your account setup, the Reblaze License Manager window appears. Click Sign Up and then enter the details requested, ensuring your email and phone number are valid. They will be needed later on.

Note that your phone number must be entered using the international format: the "+" sign followed by the country code, area code and number (no spaces or hyphens; for example, a US number: +17891234567). The phone number must be able to receive text messages.

When you have finished, select Sign up.

In the next window of the Reblaze License Manager, specify a password and select Set password.

Now, sign into the Reblaze License Manager with the credentials you just created. This is where you will create your licenses for Reblaze.

• Note that a separate license is needed for each Reblaze console. If you have multiple environments but wish to use only one Reblaze console, you will need just one license. But if you wish to have multiple consoles you will require multiple licenses.

• For each license needed, select the Generate new license button (see below).

• After you generate a license, you will receive a Welcome email containing your License ID and an AWS Marketplace link which leads to the Product Overview page in the Marketplace.

• If you do not wish to wait for the email and link from AWS, you may reach the same page directly from the AWS Marketplace.

  • If you do this by returning to the previous tab used, be sure to close the pop-up, shown below, without clicking the orange Setup button since you have already setup your account.

Now, go to the search field at the top of the page and once again, enter: Reblaze.

• Select the link that has a version number (which does not say SAAS contract). This will take you to the Product Overview page. On the upper right hand of the page, click the Continue to Subscribe button.

• Next, click Continue to Configuration in the upper right part of the page.

Launch CloudFormation

After selecting "Continue to Configuration," the Configure this software screen will appear. Confirm that the AWS region is correct. Then click the Continue to Launch button on the upper right.

1. The Launch this software screen will appear.

2. In the Choose Action section, select Launch CloudFormation from the dropdown box. Click Launch and begin the Launch process.

3. Accept the default template and then enter the Stack details: define a name for the Stack and specify the Vpcid.

4. Choose the Subnets in your AWS environment.

5. In the RBZAllowAccess field, enter the IP from your VPC, as appears in the Vpcid field.

6. In the Notification Email field, enter an email address.

7. In the Reblaze License ID field, enter the ID you generated in the Reblaze License Manager.

8. Click Next.

Configure Stack Options

Clicking "Next" (above) brings you to the Advanced options screen where stack options are configured. Many users will not need to enter any information on this screen, so you can click Next.

At this point, AWS will display a summary of the stack you are about to create. Review it and then click Create stack. AWS now creates the stack. Once created, you will be able to see the stack in the awstraining box in the Stacks section on the left, as shown in the screen in the next section (immediately below).

Complete the Deployment

Now, go to the Outputs tab and click the link circled below.

The link will take you to the Reblaze Management Console. You can now deploy Reblaze.

1. Enter the Login credentials you defined earlier.

2. The Welcome to Reblaze screen will be displayed with the account details automatically completed. At the bottom of the screen, click Complete Deployment. The remaining deployment steps and console creation now take place automatically in Reblaze.

Once you have received notification on your screen that the process is complete, you will be brought to the Reset My Password page.

1. Enter your email address and click Reset My Password.

2. This will bring you to the Log In screen.

3. Do not fill in the fields on the Log In screen.

• Wait for the email Reblaze will have sent you containing a link to the Reset Your Password screen.

  • Create a new password and click Reset My Password.

  • You will be returned to the Log In screen. From here you may begin setting up your sites and web applications within Reblaze.

Once you have completed the deployment process, this section will guide you through the process to complete the site setup and link your web applications to Reblaze.

Specify the Web Assets

1. Log into Reblaze. Enter your email address and password, and click the envelope icon to receive a one-time password (OTP). The OTP will go to the telephone number you gave when you created your login account.

2. Enter the OTP and click Log In. Your Reblaze dashboard appears.

3. From the navigation panel, go to Settings > Planet Overview. This shows all the sites and web applications defined within Reblaze. Note: Since the initial setup of a site or application is prone to error, Reblaze lets you create a new application only by copying an existing application and then editing the results. A new Reblaze deployment includes a default application for this purpose.

4. Click Duplicate on the row of the default application.

5. Enter the name of the new site or application.

6. Click Duplicate. The new site/application is created and opened for editing.

1. We will use the default Reblaze settings when appropriate.

   • A note on load balancing: Please note that the load balancing parameters shown here are separate from the load balancer that you will set up in Set Up a Load Balancer. The load balancing within Reblaze (which is defined here) is done to distribute scrubbed traffic across the servers within your network. The load balancing outside of Reblaze will dynamically create new instances of Reblaze as needed, in response to spikes of incoming traffic which has not yet been scrubbed. For more details about Reblaze settings, see Reblaze Deployment Terminology in the Reblaze user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/.

2. Under Host, enter the IP address for the upstream server. This is the server that Reblaze will sent the traffic after the traffic is scrubbed.

3. To add additional servers, click Add and enter the IP address for each one.

4. In the Domain Names box, enter the domain aliases for this site or application. Wild cards can be used.

5. (optional) To redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS, copy the return 301 https... command as described on the page into the HTTP Redirect Line box.

6. Click Save Changes.

7. You will be prompted to publish your changes to the cloud. Close the popup box and click Publish Changes. Important: After publishing, there will be a message at the bottom that the changes are being published to the cloud. Do not refresh or leave this page until the publishing process is finished.

8. By default, a new application is set to report only mode. In this mode, Reblaze does not filter any traffic. It only reports on traffic that would have been filtered if it were in active mode. This is useful if you want to test or fine-tune an application or new deployment. To move an application to active mode, click the REPORT button to toggle it to ACTIVE mode, and then publish the change.

The initial configuration of Reblaze is now complete. For the full set of configuration parameters, see the Reblaze user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/.

Continue to Set Up GCP Health Checks

Now that you have configured the Reblaze platform, you should set up GCP health checks and then load balancers.

Create Health Checks

1. In your Google Cloud Platform Console, select Navigation menu > Compute Engine > Health checks.

2. Set up the port 443 HTTPS health check:

   1. Click Create health check in the toolbar on the top of the page.

   2. Enter a name for the health check. For example, use healthcheck-443 for port 443 (HTTPS).

   3. For protocol, select HTTPS.

   4. For Request path, you can use the same one that was used for the HTTP health check.

   5. The remaining default values are usually reasonable and you can leave them as is, or you can change these values according to your requirements.

   6. Click Create.

Continue to Set Up GCP Load Balancer.

This guide will walk you through the process from the first access of the marketplace until Reblaze is successfully deployed and protecting your website. We offer our help at any step of the process at support@reblaze.com.

Before carrying out your first deployment, we suggest that you watch these videos to better understand the onboarding and deployment process.

• Reblaze via Google Cloud Marketplace: Initial Deployment

• Reblaze from a Marketplace Deployment: Defining Sites and Web Applications

• Reblaze via Google Cloud Marketplace: Routing Traffic

The process for onboarding Reblaze in GCP includes the following steps:

1. Deploy Reblaze

2. Configure the Reblaze Platform

3. Set Up GCP Health Checks

4. Set Up GCP Load Balancer

Last Steps

Route your traffic to the load balancer

At this point, your deployment and setup are complete. To see the IP address of the new load balancer: from your Google Cloud Platform Console, select Navigation menu > Network services > Load Balancing and then click the name of the load balancer to see its details.

Now test to check whether your website works correctly when routing traffic to the Reblaze deployment. Perform offline testing by modifying your hosts file to point your website to the load balancer. If you see that you are returned to your website, routing via Reblaze is working correctly.

The last remaining step is to route your traffic to the load balancer, which will send it to your Reblaze instance(s). Reblaze will scrub the traffic and forward it on to your servers. To setup this routing, set your DNS record to the IP address that is resolved from the load balancer DNS Name.

Activate Reblaze Traffic Filtering

Initially, Reblaze is setup for report-only mode. Assuming that this option was not changed, then Reblaze is not yet filtering your traffic; it is merely reporting on what it would have filtered had it been set up in active mode. This gives you an opportunity to fine-tune Reblaze’s configuration before any of your traffic is actually affected. When you are comfortable with the reporting results, move the application to Active mode and publish the change, as described in Configure the Reblaze Platform.

Going Forward: Customizing Reblaze

As you might notice from looking through the interface, the Reblaze web security platform is both powerful and highly customizable, with the ability to be fine-tuned for your specific needs. However, it is beyond the scope of this document to describe this customization process. Furthermore, a full and correct customization is often rather daunting for new users.

For more information on using Reblaze, see the user manual at https://gb.docs.reblaze.com/.

We at Reblaze Technologies want you to have the best experience possible with the platform, so that you will enjoy the full benefits of comprehensive, intelligent, and effortless web security. Therefore, please feel free to contact support at support@reblaze.com, for further one- on-one assistance in setting up your deployment. We’re available 24 hours per day to assist you.

​Configure a Load Balancer

1. Go to the AWS Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/.

2. In AWS Services, go to EC2 > Load Balancers and click Create Load Balancer.

3. Click Create for Application Load Balancer.

4. Set the Load Balancer parameters:

1. Enter a name for the Load Balancer.

2. Under Load Balancer Protocol, select HTTP and HTTPS.

3. Under Availability Zones, select at least 2 zones.

These should be the same zones as you selected when specifying CloudFormation parameters in Specify Stack Details.

5. Click Next: Configure Security Settings.

Configure Security Settings

On the HTTPS listener, attach the correct certificate and select the Security policy.

1. Select a certificate name.

2. Select a security policy.

3. Click Next: Configure Security Groups.

Configure Security Groups

Allow access to the Load Balancer. Typically you will add a new security group for this, or you can select an existing one.

1. Select Create a new security group.

2. Enter a name for the security group.

3. For TYPE, click and select HTTP for the first row and HTTPS for the second row.

4. Click Next: Configure Routing.

Configure Routing and Create the Load Balancer

1. For Target Group, select Existing target group.

2. For Target type, select Reblaze-80. This is already available from the Marketplace deployment.

3. Click Next: Register Targets.

4. Click Next: Review.

5. Click Create.

6. Once the load balancer is created, click Close.

Update Listeners

The Load Balancer has been created and will appear on the Load Balancer page. Since you created an HTTPS listener earlier, the target group will require an update.

1. Select the Listeners tab for the load balancer.

2. You can see that both Listeners are being forwarded to Reblaze-80. Click View/edit rules for HTTPS 443. The Rules page for HTTPS:443 appears.

3. Click the edit icon (the pencil icon) on the Rules toolbar to edit the rules, then click the edit icon for HTTP:443. The Edit Rule box appears.

4. Click the edit icon under THEN.

5. For Target group, select Reblaze-443.

6. Click Update on the Rules toolbar. A message that "Default rule was successfully updated" appears.

7. Click the back arrow on the Rules toolbar to return to the Load Balancer page.

8. To confirm that the load balancer is configured correctly:

   1. Select the Description tab for the load balancer.

   2. Highlight the DNS name and click the copy icon next to it.

   3. Paste the DNS into a browser window. The browser should return a "403 Forbidden" page from "rhino-core-shield".

Now, return to AWS for the final steps needed to get Reblaze running on your website.

Sign up to Google Cloud Platform marketplace

To sign up to Google Cloud Platform marketplace you will need a GCP account and a project already set up within your account.

• Start by searching for "Redis" and then select Memorystore.

• Enable this option when the screen below appears. The process takes several minutes to complete.

• When Memorystore has been enabled, the following window appears. Select Marketplace.

• This will bring you to the Marketplace where you will search for "Reblaze." There will be multiple results to your search. Select the option shown below.

Selecting the Reblaze option shown above will bring you to a window where you select Launch.

Set up Deployment

1. On the next window that appears, specify a deployment option. Select License ID and click the Get License link which appears.

2. This will open a new tab showing the Reblaze License Manager. Here, choose Sign Up and then enter the requested information.

• Ensure your email and phone number are valid. They will be needed later on.

• Note that your phone number must be entered using the international format: the "+" sign followed by the country code, area code and number (no spaces or hyphens; for example, a US number: +17891234567). The phone number must be able to receive text messages.

• When you have finished, select Sign up.

3. In the next window of the Reblaze License Manager, specify a password and select Set password.

Now, sign into the Reblaze License Manager with the credentials you just created. This is where you will create your licenses for Reblaze.

• Note that a separate license is needed for each Reblaze console. If you have multiple environments but wish to use only one Reblaze console, you will need just one license. But if you wish to have multiple consoles you will require multiple licenses.

• For each license needed, select the Generate new license button (see below).

4. Now, select the License ID you want to use and copy it to the clipboard.

5. Return to the GCP console and enter that License ID.

6. Scroll further down in order to review the default values for the new deployment, then select Deploy. This will transfer you to a page displaying the progress of the deployment.

7. When deployment is complete, select LOG INTO THE ADMIN PANEL. You will be redirected to the Reblaze Login page.

8. Enter the Login credentials you defined earlier. The account details will be filled in automatically.

9. Select Complete Deployment.

Now, the remaining deployment steps and console creation will occur, which take a few minutes. When the steps have been completed, you will see a notification on the screen informing you that Reblaze is setting up more things in the background.

Once you have received notification on your screen that this process is complete, you will be brought to the Reset My Password page.

1. Enter your email address and click Reset My Password.

2. This will bring you to the Log In screen.

3. Do not fill in the fields on the Log In screen.

• Wait for the email Reblaze will have sent you containing a link to the Reset Your Password screen.

  • Create a new password and click Reset My Password.

  • You will be redirected to the Reblaze console Log In screen. From here you may begin setting up your sites and web applications within Reblaze.

Continue to Configure the Reblaze Platform

Procedure Overview

Procedure Details

Step 1: Console Creation by Reblaze

The Reblaze team will set up a new 2.x console for you. Once this is done, proceed to Step 2.

Redis settings: If you already have a Redis server installed (which is usually true for Reblaze installations of v2.14 and later), you do not need to create a new one. If you do not have a Redis server setup, you will need to create one.

Step 2: Create New Deployment

Go to EC2 > Auto Scaling groups, see Launch template configuration ( zone , capacity, type, etc.)

Now go to EC2 > Launch Template Select your template. To create a new launch template version with a new image, click Actions > Modify template

On the screen that appears (below), provide a description of the image (version 2.18.0 was used as an example below):

Scroll further down the page and see the AMI details listed in the AMI from catalog tab:

Next, Reblaze deployment in the AWS marketplace must be set up.

Search for Reblaze and click on the first option.

Scroll down the page and click View CloudFormation Template.

Now click View Template in CloudFormation Designer.

In this template (below) you can see each region and its AMI.

Copy the AMI compatible with your region. (In our example we used the “us-east-1” AMI.)

Now, return to the Modify template window. Under AMI from catalog, select Browse more AMIs.

Paste the AMI in the search box. Choose the Reblaze image from among the search results.

Find and select the Reblaze image. Click Select.

In the Modify template window, add the new version to your catalog.

Click Create template version on the bottom right of the screen.

Your new version now appears under Launch template details.

Step 3: Set Up Canary Instance

Go to EC2 > Launch template and change the Default to the new version (2) Click Update.

Go to your AutoScaling group. In the Details tab, find Group details and click Edit.

Desired capacity must be increased by 100% . For example, if you have 2 servers, Desired capacity must be set to 4. Ensure that this amount does not exceed the Maximum capacity or it too will need to be increased.

Click Update (below).

Step 4: Verify Traffic Monitoring

On the EC2 > Auto Scaling groups screen, check the Instance management tab for the number of servers. Alternatively, you can check the number of servers on your console.

You should be able to see new servers being added with the new version.

Go to your Reblaze dashboard and confirm that you see the new instances and that traffic is routing through them and your sites are working as expected.

Step 5: Remove Old Servers

Once we verify the new servers are receiving traffic, the old version and its servers must be terminated.

Under the Auto Scaling group, Details tab, there is an Advanced configurations window.

Make sure Termination policies is set to Oldest Launch Template; if not, click Edit and change the policy.

Under the Details tab on the EC2 > Auto Scaling groups screen, locate the Group size options. Reduce the number of desired servers in group to the original amount.

Click Update. The servers attached to the older version will terminate.

Procedure Overview

Procedure Details

Step 1: Console Creation by Reblaze

The Reblaze team will set up a new 2.x console for you. Once this is done, proceed to Step 2.

Step 2: Create New Deployment

Go to the Marketplace and create a new Reblaze Deployment in version 2.x.

For the Deployment type, make sure to select “New region”.

For the Template resource zone, select the same region as the one in the previous installation. (Otherwise, the upgrade will not work.)

Scroll further down the page to the following:

For the Networking region, select the same region as the one in the previous installation. (Otherwise, the upgrade will not work.)

Auto-scaling settings - Minimum number of instances: At least as many instances as in the previous installation. In any case, it should never be less than 2 instances.

Redis settings: If you already have a Redis server installed (which is usually true for Reblaze installations of v2.14 and later), you do not need to create a new one, so you can uncheck the Redis deployment checkbox.

After choosing these settings, click the Deploy button at the bottom of the page.

Once your setup is complete, notify Reblaze support. Reblaze personnel will ensure the console is seeing the new instance group, and will connect the Redis server to it.

Step 3: Setup Canary Instance

Within your GCP console, go to Instance groups and select your current (i.e., the older version) instance group.

Here’s an example where the current group is 6887:

Select it by clicking on its name. The following screen will appear:

Now click on Update VMs. to see the You’ll see this:

Click on Add a Second Template. Add the new template you created. (In this example, the new template is 2354.) Now click on Update VMs.

Click on Add a Second Template. Add the new template you created. (In this example, the new template is 2354.) Now click on Update VMs.

Step 4: Verify Traffic Monitoring

Go to your Reblaze dashboard, and make sure that you see traffic in the new instances, and that your sites are working as expected.

Step 5: Remove Old Template

In your GCP console, delete the template for the old version.

Once you set up the load balancers (LB), traffic will be routed through them to Reblaze. Using these load balancers allows GCP to create more instances as needed to handle the traffic.

1. First, set up a load balancer and choose the HTTP protocol for the backend service as follows:

   1. Create an HTTP or HTTPS load balancer

   2. Create the backend service

   3. Select host and path rules

   4. Select frontend configuration

   5. Complete the load balancer creation process

2. When an HTTPS ( port 443 ) is required, create an additional load balancer and choose the HTTPS protocol. The steps for this are the same as creating an HTTP LB, with additional steps within the frontend configuration process.

3. After you have created the required load balancers, return to the main GCP section for the final steps needed to get Reblaze running on your website.

Create a Load Balancer

1. In your Google Cloud Platform Console, select Navigation menu > Network services > Load Balancing.

2. Click Create load balancer.

3. Click Start configuration for the appropriate type:

• The HTTP(S) load balancer supports ports 80, 8080, and 443, (including HTTP and HTTPS) and is the appropriate type for most Reblaze customers.

If you need non-standard ports, then use the TCP load balancer instead.

4. You will now be asked whether this load balancer is for Internet facing or internal only. Select From Internet to my VMs and click Continue. The load balancer creation page appears.

5. Enter a name for the load balancer. We recommend that you include the protocol of this load balancer as part of the name (HTTP or HTTPS), for example, LB1-http or LB2-https.

Continue to the section below: Create the Backend Service.

Create the Backend Service

2. Enter a name for the backend service. We recommend that you include the protocol of this load balancer as part of the name (HTTP or HTTPS), for example, BE1-http or BE2-https.

4. In the New backend fields:.

   1. Select the Instance group that was created when you deployed Reblaze in GCP. The same instance group can be used for both HTTP and HTTPS.

   2. In the Instance group has named ports popup, make sure to select the correct port for each protocol (80 or 443). 80 is the default value.

   3. Click Use selected port name

   4. Select the Port numbers. Make sure that the port number selected matched the protocol that this LB is for.

   5. For Balancing mode, select Rate, and enter 1000000 for Maximum RPS. This ensures that all servers stay available during a traffic spike unless a health check indicates otherwise.

   6. Click Done for New backend.

5. (optional) Enable Google Cloud CDN.

6. Select the Health check that you previously created for this protocol. Make sure to use the matching health check that was created for the load balancer you are now creating (HTTP or HTTPS).

7. Review the remaining values on the page to see that they are appropriate for your application environment.

8. Click Create for the backend service.

Select Host and Path Rules

A default host and path rule has already been created. Additional rules are optional.

Select Frontend Configuration

2. Enter a name for the frontend. We recommend that you include the protocol of this load balancer as part of the name (HTTP or HTTPS), for example, FE1-http or FE2-https.

3. For Protocol, select the protocol that was created for the load balancer you are now creating (HTTP or HTTPS). HTTP is the default value.

4. For most use cases, you will want to reserve a static IP address.

   If this is the first load balancer you are creating (usually HTTP), for IP address do the following:

   1. Select Create IP address.

   2. In the Reserve a new static IP address dialog, enter a name. The name for this IP address should not have the protocol embedded within it, since it will be the same for all load balancers that you create.

   3. Click Reserve. GCP will reserve an IP address and it will now appear in the IP address field in the frontend configuration panel. Tip: Make a note of the IP address provided by GCP. You will need it later at the end of the configuration process.

   If this is an additional LB (usually HTTPS):

   • For IP address, select the IP address previously created for the first LB.

5. HTTPS only: If this load balancer is for HTTPS, you need to add or create a SSL certificate.

   1. For Certificate, select Create a new certificate.

   2. Enter a name for the certificate.

   3. You can either use a certificate you already have, or create a new one:

   4. To use an existing certificate:

      • Enter the certificate information.

      • Click Create for the certificate..

   5. To create a Google-managed certificate:

      • Select Create Google-managed certificate.

      • Enter the domains to which this certificate will apply. Multiple domains can be entered.

      • Click Create for the certificate.

6. Click Done in the Frontend configuration panel.

Complete the Load Balancer Creation Process

• Once you have completed all the required components for the load balancer, click Create in the Load balancer panel. The load balancer is then created. The IP address provided is the destination for your website traffic.