7. Create a Load Balancer

Creating a Load Balancer to expose your application to the web

Navigate to Kubernetes -> Services, and select the nginx Service from the list.

Select the Load Balancers tab and click Configure Load Balancer. The Add Load Balancer Listener pane displays. Complete the following fields:

• Type: Application LB

• Container port: 80

• External port: 443

• Visibility: Public

• Application mode: Docker Mode

• Health check: /

• Backend protocol: HTTP

• Certificates: WILDCARD.test04-apps.duplocloud.net

The Add Load Balancer Listener pane

Click Add. When the Load Balancer is complete, the Service displays a status of Running and the Load Balancer displays a status of Ready.

Enable HTTP to HTTPs Redirect

Navigate to Kubernetes -> Services and select the nginx Service.

Click the Load Balancers tab. On the Other Settings card, click Edit. Enable the HTTP to HTTPS redirect option.

The DNS Name and Other Settings cards in the Load Balancers tab

You can find the created DNS Name displayed on this page, CNAME'd to your Load Balancer name. Copy the URL in the DNS Name card and paste into your browser. You should see the NGINX welcome page "Welcome to nginx!" or similar. It may take a few minutes for the application to start.