Cloud Load Balancer: Cannot find backend bucket

Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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Hello,

I am creating a Cloud Load Balancer, it’s regional external, with a static IP and serving HTTP (I cannot activate HTTPS at the moment, will do later).

I would like to serve a Google Cloud Storage Bucket from the load balancer.

From the documentation, I should have a backend bucket option in Backend Configuration > Create a backend service.

I cannot find this backend bucket option, the only things I have are:

  • Instance group
  • Zonal Network Endpoint Group (NEG)
  • Internet NEG
  • Private service NEG
  • Serverless NEG
  • Hybrid NEG

Am I missing something?

Typing this, I realize I should try a “Classic Application Load Balancer” to see if I have this option. I keep you updated.

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So, yes, apparently “Classic Application Load Balancer” has this option, Regional External Load Balancer does not.

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Thank you for contacting us. Backend buckets are not supported for regional external application load balancer. You can find the list of allowed backends at [1] under references.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

References:

[1] https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https#backend-service

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Why? Might I ask? I have buckets and backend services in one region only.

Also can you please give me a link to create a Global External Managed LOad Balancer that serves both these cases together. ( good in terraform )