Configuring Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Cloud CDN can be enabled for many different types of content, either static or dynamic, from the following categories:
- Compute Engine instance groups
- Network Endpoint Groups (NEGs)
- Cloud Storage buckets
To give you an idea of how to configure Cloud CDN, in this section, we will show you how to enable the cache implementation in Cloud CDN for a Cloud Storage bucket.
We will create a bucket with two files that can be publicly accessed from the internet, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.42 – A Cloud Storage bucket with publicly accessible objects
Now, let's create a multi-regional external HTTP(S) load balancer, as we saw in the previous section. When we use a multi-regional external HTTP(S) load balancer (in the Premium Tier), it uses a global external IP address.
Cloud CDN can have a service or a bucket as a backend, as shown in the following screenshot...
