Enable a failover for the backend_service

Question

Enable a failover for the backend_service

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 5 comments

Can we enable a failover for the ILB backend.
This is the attribute that I am referring to:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/compute_region_backend_service#failover

Answer 1 · 2021-08-19T14:05:23.000Z

I can work on this btw, if approved?

Answer 2 · 2021-08-19T15:22:00.000Z

How would you plan to use this? From the documentation, it seems you would have to have two compute_region_backend_service resources (one as a failover). Should the module be updated to add a failover replica?

Answer 3 · 2021-08-19T15:24:00.000Z

I have second set of MIG (with Instance templates and service accounts) and when a health check on the primary MIG fails I want the ILB to send the traffic to the failover MIG. Currently I set two backends for the ILB and I can see both in the GCP console but the secondary is not marked as failover.

Answer 4 · 2021-08-19T15:35:05.000Z

Got it. Yes I think we should update this to accept a failover backend as well.

Answer 5 · 2021-08-24T15:01:49.000Z

@morgante can you take a look?