Step 5: 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 5 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 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, click on the Service you created.

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.

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

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

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