{"id":10029,"date":"2017-09-01T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T08:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2017-09-01T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T08:15:26","slug":"google-clouds-18-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/google-clouds-18-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Google in the clouds for 18 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud\u2019s load balancers suffered a connectivity problem for 18 hours, affecting virtual machines across the US, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported yesterday at 00:52, and was unresolved by 19:18.<\/p>\n<p>Google wrote in a statement at 06:00: \u201cWe are determined the infrastructure component is responsible for the issue and mitigation work is currently underway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 08:30 the message changed: \u201cWe have identified the event that triggers this issue and are rolling back a configuration change to mitigate this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google stated it was carrying \u201cfurther measures to completely resolve the issue\u201d, once the change was implemented, half an hour after.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Google advised users to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a new TargetPool.<\/li>\n<li>Add the affected VMs in a region to the new TargetPool.<\/li>\n<li>Wait for the VMs to start working in their existing load balancer configuration.<\/li>\n<li>Delete the new TargetPool.<\/li>\n<li>DO NOT delete the existing load balancer configure, including the old target pool.<\/li>\n<li>Create a new ForwardingRule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to <em>The Register<\/em>, Google admitted that it was source of the issue through an update of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Google also broke its own cloud in April 2016, July 2016, August 2016 and September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud\u2019s load balancers suffered a connectivity problem for 18 hours, 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