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Creates a Backend Service resource for Google Compute Engine.
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# google\_compute\_backend\_service
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A Backend Service defines a group of virtual machines that will serve traffic for load balancing. For more information
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see [the official documentation ](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/backend-service )
and the [API ](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/latest/backendServices ).
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For internal load balancing, use a [google_compute_region_backend_service ](/docs/providers/google/r/compute_region_backend_service.html ).
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## Example Usage
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```hcl
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resource "google_compute_backend_service" "website" {
name = "my_backend"
description = "Our company website"
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port_name = "http"
protocol = "HTTP"
timeout_sec = 10
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enable_cdn = false
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backend {
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group = "${google_compute_instance_group_manager.webservers.instance_group}"
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}
health_checks = ["${google_compute_http_health_check.default.self_link}"]
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}
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resource "google_compute_instance_group_manager" "webservers" {
name = "my_webservers"
instance_template = "${google_compute_instance_template.webserver.self_link}"
base_instance_name = "webserver"
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zone = "us-central1-f"
target_size = 1
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}
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resource "google_compute_instance_template" "webserver" {
name = "standard_webserver"
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machine_type = "n1-standard-1"
network_interface {
network = "default"
}
disk {
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source_image = "debian-cloud/debian-8"
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auto_delete = true
boot = true
}
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}
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resource "google_compute_http_health_check" "default" {
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name = "test"
request_path = "/"
check_interval_sec = 1
timeout_sec = 1
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}
```
## Argument Reference
The following arguments are supported:
* `name` - (Required) The name of the backend service.
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* `health_checks` - (Required) Specifies a list of HTTP health check objects
for checking the health of the backend service.
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- - -
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* `backend` - (Optional) The list of backends that serve this BackendService. Structure is documented below.
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* `description` - (Optional) The textual description for the backend service.
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* `enable_cdn` - (Optional) Whether or not to enable the Cloud CDN on the backend service.
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* `port_name` - (Optional) The name of a service that has been added to an
instance group in this backend. See [related docs ](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/#specifying_service_endpoints ) for details. Defaults to http.
* `project` - (Optional) The project in which the resource belongs. If it
is not provided, the provider project is used.
* `protocol` - (Optional) The protocol for incoming requests. Defaults to
`HTTP` .
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* `session_affinity` - (Optional) How to distribute load. Options are `NONE` (no
affinity), `CLIENT_IP` (hash of the source/dest addresses / ports), and
`GENERATED_COOKIE` (distribute load using a generated session cookie).
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* `timeout_sec` - (Optional) The number of secs to wait for a backend to respond
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to a request before considering the request failed. Defaults to `30` .
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* `connection_draining_timeout_sec` - (Optional) Time for which instance will be drained (not accept new connections,
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but still work to finish started ones). Defaults to `0` .
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The `backend` block supports:
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* `group` - (Required) The name or URI of a Compute Engine instance group
(`google_compute_instance_group_manager.xyz.instance_group`) that can
receive traffic.
* `balancing_mode` - (Optional) Defines the strategy for balancing load.
Defaults to `UTILIZATION`
* `capacity_scaler` - (Optional) A float in the range [0, 1.0] that scales the
maximum parameters for the group (e.g., max rate). A value of 0.0 will cause
no requests to be sent to the group (i.e., it adds the group in a drained
state). The default is 1.0.
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* `description` - (Optional) Textual description for the backend.
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* `max_rate` - (Optional) Maximum requests per second (RPS) that the group can
handle.
* `max_rate_per_instance` - (Optional) The maximum per-instance requests per
second (RPS).
* `max_utilization` - (Optional) The target CPU utilization for the group as a
float in the range [0.0, 1.0]. This flag can only be provided when the
balancing mode is `UTILIZATION` . Defaults to `0.8` .
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## Attributes Reference
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In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are
exported:
* `fingerprint` - The fingerprint of the backend service.
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* `self_link` - The URI of the created resource.
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## Import
Backend services can be imported using the `name` , e.g.
```
$ terraform import google_compute_backend_service.website my_backend
```