📍 Navigation: VPC network → VPC networks → Create VPC network

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: VPC network → Firewall rules → Create Firewall Rule

Rule A: Allow HTTP

✅ Create

Rule B: Allow SSH

✅ Create

📍 Navigation: Compute Engine → VM instances → Create instance

VM #1: web-server-1

Startup script:

#! /bin/bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
echo "Welcome to Server 1" | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
sudo systemctl start apache2

✅ Click Create

VM #2: web-server-2

Same settings as VM #1, except for Name and Startup script:

Startup script:

#! /bin/bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
echo "Welcome to Server 2" | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html
sudo systemctl start apache2

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: Compute Engine → Instance groups → Create instance group

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: Network services → Load balancing → Health checks → Create Health Check

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: Network services → Load balancing → Backend configuration → Create backend service

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: Network services → Load balancing → URL maps → Create URL map

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: Network services → Load balancing → Target proxies → Create target HTTP proxy

✅ Click Create

📍 Navigation: VPC network → External IP addresses → Reserve static IP

✅ Click Reserve

📍 Navigation: Network services → Load balancing → Create Load Balancer → HTTP(S) Load Balancing

Follow the guided wizard:

🔹 Frontend Configuration

Click Done

🔹 Backend Configuration

Select existing backend service: web-backend

Click Next, review everything, then:

✅ Click Create

Open your browser:

http://<your-global-static-ip>

✅ You should see either:

• Welcome to Server 1
• Welcome to Server 2 (on refresh)