AWS Gateway Load Balancer

Transparent layer-3 gateway that distributes IP traffic across virtual appliances over GENEVE.

Provider: aws
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/introduction.html
Also known as: GWLB

Properties · 6 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
crossZone · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
deletionProtection · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
flowStickiness · component property	enum	5-tuple \| 3-tuple \| 2-tuple	no	5-tuple	inherited
global	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
hashing	enum	round-robin \| least-connections \| ecmp \| maglev \| consistent \| random	no	round-robin	▸ consistent
healthChecks	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
instances	integer	—	no	—	inherited
layer	enum	l4 \| l7	no	l7	▸ l4
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
targetFailover · component property	enum	no-rebalance \| rebalance	no	no-rebalance	inherited
tcpResetOnUnhealthy · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited

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nodes:
  - { id: "gwlb", component: "aws-gwlb" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# AWS Gateway Load Balancer: managed transparent layer-3 gateway that flow-hashes IP packets to
3# virtual appliances over GENEVE port 6081 ("What is a Gateway Load Balancer?").
4# Flow stickiness is 5-tuple and existing flows stay on a failed target (no_rebalance); cross-zone
5# load balancing and TCP reset are off by default ("Edit attributes for your Gateway Load Balancer").
6schemaVersion: "1"
7type: "component"
8id: "aws-gwlb"
9kind: "load-balancer"
10provider: "aws"
11docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/introduction.html"
12aliases: ["GWLB"]
13defaults:
14  managed: true
15  layer: "l4"
16  hashing: "consistent"
17  connectionPreserving: true
18  healthChecks: true
19  global: false
20properties:
21  flowStickiness:
22    type: "enum"
23    values: ["5-tuple", "3-tuple", "2-tuple"]
24    default: "5-tuple"
25  crossZone:
26    type: "boolean"
27    default: false
28  targetFailover:
29    type: "enum"
30    values: ["no-rebalance", "rebalance"]
31    default: "no-rebalance"
32  tcpResetOnUnhealthy:
33    type: "boolean"
34    default: false
35  deletionProtection:
36    type: "boolean"
37    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-gwlb.md