This tutorial shows you how to use Certificate Manager to deploy a global Google-managed certificate with load balancer authorization.
Load balancer authorization lets you obtain a Google-managed certificate for your domain when traffic is served by the load balancer. This method doesn't require any additional DNS records for certificate provisioning.
The following load balancers support Google-managed certificates with load balancer authorization:
- Global external Application Load Balancer
- Classic Application Load Balancer
- Global external proxy Network Load Balancer
- Classic proxy Network Load Balancer
Objectives
This tutorial shows you how to complete the following tasks:
- Create a Google-managed certificate issued by a publicly trusted Certificate Authority (CA) with load balancer authorization by using Certificate Manager.
- Deploy the certificate to a supported load balancer by using a target HTTPS proxy.
If you're deploying a certificate to a production domain, traffic is interrupted briefly while the certificate is set up and activated on your load balancer.