Motivation
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide step-by-step instructions in getting an Azure Load Balancer up quickly. Our docs do a great job at covering the CockroachDB portion but the granular steps to get ALB up are missing. Since this is my first foray into managed load balancers, I decided to do the hard work.
High-Level Steps
- Provision a cluster in Azure
- Provision a load balancer
- Test connectivity
- Clean up
Step by Step Instructions
This article assumes you've set up a Resource Group and a Virtual Network associated with it in your Azure subscription. Following this document will walk you through setting up a CockroachDB cluster. When you have these prerequisites in place, we can continue with setting up a load balancer.