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Minimum number of instances should be configured for your Load Balancer regional instance groups to improve the reliability.Risk Level
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CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration “Minimum Number of Compute Instances Should Be Configured For Load Balancers Regional Instance Groups” for GCP using GCP console, follow the steps below:
- Open the GCP console and navigate to the Load balancing page.
- Select the load balancer for which you want to configure the regional instance group.
- Click on the Edit button at the top of the page.
- In the Backend configuration section, select the regional backend service for which you want to configure the regional instance group.
- Under the Instance groups section, click on the Edit button.
- In the Edit instance group dialog box, scroll down to the Autoscaling section.
- In the Minimum instances field, enter the minimum number of compute instances that should be configured for the regional instance group.
- Click on the Save button to save the changes.
- Verify that the changes have been applied by checking the instance group details.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of minimum number of compute instances not being configured for Load Balancers Regional Instance Groups in GCP using GCP CLI, follow these steps:
- Open the Cloud Shell in the GCP Console.
-
Check the current configuration of the regional instance group by running the following command:
Replace
[INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME]
with the name of the regional instance group and[REGION]
with the region where the instance group is located. -
Check the current configuration of the autoscaler for the regional instance group by running the following command:
Replace
[INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME]
with the name of the regional instance group and[REGION]
with the region where the instance group is located. -
If the minimum number of instances is not configured, set the minimum number of instances to 1 by running the following command:
Replace
[INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME]
with the name of the regional instance group and[REGION]
with the region where the instance group is located. -
Verify that the minimum number of instances is now set to 1 by running the following command:
Replace
[INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME]
with the name of the regional instance group and[REGION]
with the region where the instance group is located. - Repeat the above steps for any other regional instance groups that are not configured with a minimum number of instances.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “Minimum Number of Compute Instances Should Be Configured For Load Balancers Regional Instance Groups” for GCP using python, follow the below steps:This will remediate the misconfiguration by setting the minimum number of compute instances for the load balancer regional instance group in GCP.
- First, you need to authenticate and authorize the Google Cloud SDK using the following command:
- Install the necessary python libraries such as
google-auth
,google-auth-oauthlib
,google-auth-httplib2
, andgoogle-cloud-compute
using the following command:
- Now, you need to write a python script to remediate the misconfiguration. Here is an example script:
-
Replace the
project_id
,region
,instance_group_name
, andmin_instances
with your own values. - Run the python script using the following command: