Step 6: Test the Application

Test the application to ensure you get the results you expect

You can test your application directly from the Services page.

Estimated time to complete Step 6 and finish tutorial: 10 minutes.

Prerequisites

Before creating a Load Balancer, verify that you accomplished the tasks in the previous tutorial steps. Using the DuploCloud Portal, confirm that:

• An Infrastructure and Plan exist, both with the name you created.

• The Infrastructure you created has GKE Enabled.

• A Tenant with the name you chose has been created.

• A Node Pool has been created.

• A Service with the name you chose has been created.

• An Application Load Balancer has been created.

Select the Tenant you created

In the Tenant list box, on the upper-left side of the DuploCloud Portal, select the Tenant that you created.

Testing the Application

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Kubernetes -> Services. The Services page displays.

2. From the Name column, select demo-service.

3. Click the Load Balancers tab. The Application Load Balancer configuration is displayed.

4. In the LB Configuration card, click the Copy Icon ( ) to copy the IP Address displayed to your clipboard.

5. Open a browser instance and Paste the IP Address in the URL field of your browser.

6. Press ENTER. A web page with the text Welcome to nginx! is displayed.

Congratulations! You have just launched your first web service on DuploCloud!