Running instance groups with auto scaling

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Updated at October 17, 2024

Prepare your cloud
Prepare the environment
Create an instance group with auto scaling and network load balancer
Add a network load balancer with a target group
Test your instance group and network load balancer
- Test auto scaling
Delete the infrastructure
How to create an infrastructure using Terraform

In this tutorial, you will deploy an instance group with an automatic scaling policy applied if the permitted load is exceeded.

VM instances will be deployed in two availability zones and their load will be balanced with a Yandex Network Load Balancer network load balancer.

To create an instance group:

If you no longer need the resources you created, delete them.

You can also deploy an infrastructure for scaling your instance group via Terraform using a ready-made configuration file.

Prepare your cloud

Go to the management console and log in to Yandex Cloud or create an account if you do not have one yet.
On the Yandex Cloud Billing page, make sure you have a billing account linked and it has the ACTIVE or TRIAL_ACTIVE status. If you do not have a billing account, create one.

If you have an active billing account, you can go to the cloud page to create or select a folder for your infrastructure to operate in.

Learn more about clouds and folders.

If you don't have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install it.
For the scripts from the tutorial to run correctly, download and install the jq utility.
To check auto scaling, install the wrk benchmarking tool.

Prepare the environment

Create a service account named for-autoscale and assign it the editor role:
Management console

CLI

Terraform

API
1. In the management console, select a folder in which to create a service account.
2. At the top of the screen, go to the Service accounts tab.
3. Click Create service account.
4. In the window that opens:
  - In the Name field, specify for-autoscale.
  - To assign the service account a role for the current folder, click Add role and select the editor role.
  - Click Create.
1. Create a service account:
  
  The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.
  yc iam service-account create --name for-autoscale
  Result:
  id: ajelabcde12f******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T14:32:18.900092Z" name: for-autoscale
2. Assign the role to the service account:
  yc resource-manager folder add-access-binding b1g23ga82bcv******** \ --role editor \ --subject serviceAccount:ajelabcde12f********
See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.

Use the create REST API method for the ServiceAccount resource or the ServiceAccountService/Create gRPC API call.
Create a network named yc-auto-network and subnets in two availability zones:
Management console

CLI

Terraform

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a network.
2. Select Virtual Private Cloud.
3. Click Create network.
4. In the Name field, enter yc-auto-network as the network name.
5. In the Advanced field, enable the Create subnets option.
6. Click Create network.
1. Create a network:
  yc vpc network create --name yc-auto-network
  Result:
  id: enpabce123hd******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T14:57:15Z" name: yc-auto-network
2. Create a subnet in the ru-central1-a availability zone:
  yc vpc subnet create \ --network-id enpabce123hd******** \ --range 192.168.1.0/24 \ --zone ru-central1-a
  Result:
  id: e1lnabc23r1c******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T16:23:12Z" network_id: enpabce123hd******** zone_id: ru-central1-a v4_cidr_blocks: - 192.168.1.0/24
3. Create a subnet in the ru-central1-b availability zone:
  yc vpc subnet create \ --network-id enpabce123hd******** \ --range 192.168.2.0/24 \ --zone ru-central1-b
  Result:
  id: b1csa2b3clid******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T16:25:02Z" network_id: enpabce123hd******** zone_id: ru-central1-b v4_cidr_blocks: - 192.168.2.0/24
See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.
1. Create a network.
  
  Use the create REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/Create gRPC API call.
2. Create subnets in the ru-central1-a and ru-central1-b availability zones.
  
  Use the create REST API method for the Subnet resource or the SubnetService/Create gRPC API call.

Create a security group:

Management console

Terraform

In the management console, select Virtual Private Cloud.
Open the Security groups tab.

Create a security group for the load balancer:

Click Create group.
Enter the Name of the group: sg-autoscale.
Select the Network: yc-auto-network.

Under Rules, create rules using the instructions below the table:

Traffic direction	Description	Port range	Protocol	Source/ destination type	Source / destination
Outgoing	any	All	Any	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
Incoming	ext-http	80	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
Incoming	healthchecks	80	TCP	Load balancer health checks	—

Select the Outgoing traffic or Incoming traffic tab.
Click Add rule.
In the Port range field of the window that opens, specify a single port or a range of ports that traffic will come to or from.
In the Protocol field, specify the appropriate protocol or leave Any to allow traffic transmission over any protocol.
In the Purpose or Source field, select the purpose of the rule:
- CIDR: Rule will apply to the range of IP addresses. In the CIDR blocks field, specify the CIDR and masks of subnets that traffic will come to or from. To add multiple CIDRs, click Add CIDR.
- Security group: Rule will apply to the VMs from the current group or the selected security group.
- Load balancer health checks: Rule allowing a load balancer to health check VMs.
Click Save. Repeat the steps to create all the rules from the table.

Click Save.

See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.

Create an instance group with auto scaling and network load balancer

All instance groups are created from Container Optimized Image. Each instance contains a Docker container running a web server that emulates the service utilization.

Find out the ID of the latest version of the public Container Optimized Image.

A Container Optimized Image in a Container Registry registry may be updated and changed with new releases. This will not automatically update the VM image to the latest version. To create an instance group with the latest Container Optimized Image version, you need to check whether it is available yourself:
CLI

Yandex Cloud Marketplace
```
yc compute image get-latest-from-family container-optimized-image --folder-id standard-images
```
Result:
```
id: <ID_of_latest_COI_version>
folder_id: standard-images
...
```
1. Go to the Cloud Marketplace page and select the image with the configuration you need:
  - Container Optimized Image.
  - Container Optimized Image GPU.
2. Under Product IDs, copy the value of image_id.

Save the specification of the instance group with network load balancer to the file specification.yaml:

name: auto-group
service_account_id: <service_account_ID>
scale_policy:
  auto_scale:
    min_zone_size: 1
    max_size: 6
    measurement_duration: 60s
    warmup_duration: 120s
    stabilization_duration: 60s
    initial_size: 2
    cpu_utilization_rule:
      utilization_target: 40
deploy_policy:
  max_unavailable: 1
allocation_policy:
  zones:
    - zone_id: ru-central1-a
    - zone_id: ru-central1-b
load_balancer_spec:
  target_group_spec:
    name: auto-group-tg
instance_template:
  service_account_id: <service_account_ID>
  platform_id: standard-v3
  resources_spec:
    memory: 2G
    cores: 2
    core_fraction: 100
  metadata:
    docker-container-declaration: |-
      spec:
        containers:
        - image: cr.yandex/yc/demo/web-app:v1
          securityContext:
            privileged: false
          tty: false
          stdin: false
  boot_disk_spec:
    mode: READ_WRITE
    disk_spec:
      type_id: network-hdd
      size: 30G
      image_id: fd8iv792kira******** # Public Container Optimized Image ID.
  network_interface_specs:
    - network_id: <cloud_network_ID>
      primary_v4_address_spec: { one_to_one_nat_spec: { ip_version: IPV4 }}

In the specification.yaml file, replace the values in angle brackets for the real values you got in the previous steps.

Create an instance group named auto-group using the specification specification.yaml:

CLI

Terraform

API

Run this command:

yc compute instance-group create --file=specification.yaml

Result:

done (2m45s)
id: cl0hmabc1nd2********
folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv********
...
  target_group_id: enpoi5jhfps3********
...
    name: auto-group-tg
service_account_id: ajelabcde12f********
status: ACTIVE

See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.

Use the CreateFromYaml method for the InstanceGroup resource.

Make sure that the instance group was created:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where you created the instance group.
Select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, click Instance groups.
Select the auto-group instance group.

yc compute instance-group list-instances auto-group

Result:

+----------------------+---------------------------+----------------+--------------+------------------------+----------------+
|     INSTANCE ID      |           NAME            |  EXTERNAL IP   | INTERNAL IP  |         STATUS         | STATUS MESSAGE |
+----------------------+---------------------------+----------------+--------------+------------------------+----------------+
| epdab0c1ji2a******** | cl0habce1nd2********-fned | 84.201.163.202 | 192.168.1.34 | RUNNING_ACTUAL [4m26s] |                |
| ef0uabc1s2fb******** | cl0habce1nd2********-craq | 130.193.56.102 | 192.168.2.19 | RUNNING_ACTUAL [4m14s] |                |
+----------------------+---------------------------+----------------+--------------+------------------------+----------------+

See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.

To view the list of created instance groups, use the list REST API method for the InstanceGroup resource or the InstanceGroupService/List gRPC API call.

Add a network load balancer with a target group

Create a network load balancer named group-balancer and connect it to the instance group you created:
Management console

CLI

Terraform

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you want to create a load balancer.
2. Select Network Load Balancer.
3. Click Create a network load balancer.
4. Name it group-balancer.
5. In the Public address field, specify Auto.
6. Under Listeners, click Add listener. In the window that opens, specify:
  - Name: http.
  - Port (the load balancer will use this port to accept incoming traffic): 80.
  - Target port (the load balancer will redirect traffic to this port): 80.
  - Click Add.
7. Under Target groups, click Add target group.
8. In the Target group field, select the auto-group-tg instance group and click Configure. In the window that opens, specify:
  - Name: tcp
  - Type: TCP
  - Port: 80
  - Click Apply.
9. Click Create.
```
yc load-balancer network-load-balancer create \
  --listener external-ip-version=ipv4,name=http,port=80,protocol=tcp,target-port=80 \
  --name group-balancer \
  --target-group healthcheck-name=tcp,healthcheck-tcp-port=80,target-group-id=enpoi5jhfps3********
```
Result:
```
done (16s)
id: b0rbabc1m2ed********
folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv********
...
    healthy_threshold: "2"
    tcp_options:
      port: "80"
```
See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.
1. Create a load balancer using the create REST API method for the NetworkLoadBalancer resource or the NetworkLoadBalancerService/Create gRPC API call.
2. Add a listener to the load balancer using the addListener REST API method for the NetworkLoadBalancer resource or the NetworkLoadBalancerService/AddListener gRPC API call.
3. Attach the target group to the load balancer using the attachTargetGroup REST API method for the NetworkLoadBalancer resource or the NetworkLoadBalancerService/AttachTargetGroup gRPC API call.
4. Add the load balancer to the instance group using the addTargets REST API method for the TargetGroup resource or the TargetGroupService/AddTargets gRPC API call.

Make sure that the network load balancer group-balancer is created and attached to the instance group:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where you created the load balancer.
Select Network Load Balancer.
Select group-balancer as your load balancer.

yc load-balancer network-load-balancer list

Result:

+----------------------+----------------+-------------+----------+----------------+------------------------+--------+
|          ID          |      NAME      |  REGION ID  |   TYPE   | LISTENER COUNT | ATTACHED TARGET GROUPS | STATUS |
+----------------------+----------------+-------------+----------+----------------+------------------------+--------+
| b0rbabc1m2ed******** | group-balancer | ru-central1 | EXTERNAL |              1 | b0rdabckribe********   | ACTIVE |
+----------------------+----------------+-----------------+----------+----------------+------------------------+--------+

See How to create an infrastructure using Terraform.

Use the list REST API method for the NetworkLoadBalancer resource or the NetworkLoadBalancerService/List gRPC API call.

Test your instance group and network load balancer

Create a load on an instance.

To do this, save the script named request.sh in the home directory. The script will send a request to one of the instances through the group-balancer load balancer. The request will utilize 100% CPU for 30 seconds.
```
EXTERNAL_IP=$(yc load-balancer network-load-balancer get group-balancer --format=json | jq -r .listeners[0].address)

curl "http://$EXTERNAL_IP/burn-cpu?time=30000&load=100"
```

Run the script:

CLI

sh request.sh

Result:

projects/b0g12ga82bcv********/zones/ru-central1-b

View the instance utilization:
Management console
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the instance group.
2. Select Compute Cloud.
3. In the left-hand panel, click Instance groups.
4. Select the auto-group instance group.
5. Go to the Monitoring tab.
  
  The load balancer sent the request to an instance in the group. In the availability zone this instance belongs to, the average CPU utilization is higher than in other zones (see the Average CPU utilization in zone chart).

To test auto scaling for your instance group, increase the CPU utilization of each instance. In the specification.yaml file, the scale_policy.auto_scale.cpu_utilization_rule.utilization_target parameter has the value of 40: it means that the target utilization level is 40% CPU. If you exceed the target utilization, the number of VMs in the group will increase.

Increase the utilization of the instance group.

To do this, save the script named load.sh in the home directory. The script sends requests to the instance group through 12 threads for 10 minutes. Each VM instance utilizes 20% CPU on each core that processes the request. The instance group utilization is 240% CPU at any given time. To be sure that requests are evenly distributed across the instances in the group, the script executes multiple parallel requests utilizing 20% CPU rather than one request utilizing 240% CPU.
```
EXTERNAL_IP=$(yc load-balancer network-load-balancer get group-balancer --format=json | jq -r .listeners[0].address)

wrk -H "Connection: close" -t12 -c12 -d10m "http://$EXTERNAL_IP/burn-cpu?time=5000&load=20"
```

Run the script:

CLI

sh load.sh

Result:

Running 10m test @ http://130.193.56.111/burn-cpu?time=5000&load=20
  12 threads and 12 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
...
Requests/sec: 15.04
Transfer/sec: 3.20KB

View the utilization levels:
Management console
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the auto-group instance group.
2. Select Compute Cloud.
3. In the left-hand panel, click Instance groups.
4. Select the auto-group instance group.
5. Go to the Monitoring tab.
  The chart Number of instances in zone shows how the number of instances changed in each availability zone. The chart Average CPU utilization in zone shows average CPU utilization in each availability zone.
6. Go to the Logs tab.
  The page displays messages relating to auto scaling of the instance group.
The total utilization of 240% CPU was evenly distributed between two VMs in two availability zones and exceeded the target utilization of 40% CPU. Yandex Compute Cloud created one more VM in each availability zone to result in four VMs in the group. When the script stopped utilizing the CPU, Compute Cloud automatically decreased the number of instances in the group to two.

Delete the infrastructure

Delete the network load balancer:
Management console

CLI

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the group-balancer load balancer.
2. Select Network Load Balancer.
3. In the group-balancer line, click and select Delete.
4. In the window that opens, click Delete.
```
yc load-balancer network-load-balancer delete group-balancer
```
Result:
```
done (15s)
```
Use the delete REST API method for the NetworkLoadBalancer resource or the NetworkLoadBalancerService/Delete gRPC API call.
Delete the instance group:
Management console

CLI

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the auto-group instance group.
2. Select Compute Cloud.
3. In the left-hand panel, click Instance groups.
4. In the auto-group instance group line, click and select Delete.
5. In the window that opens, click Delete.
```
yc compute instance-group delete auto-group
```
Result:
```
done (1m20s)
```
Use the delete REST API method for the InstanceGroup resource or the InstanceGroupService/Delete gRPC API call.
Delete the subnets:
Management console

CLI

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the subnets.
2. Open the Virtual Private Cloud section.
3. Select the network with the appropriate subnets.
4. In the line of the subnet you need, click and select Delete.
5. In the window that opens, click Delete.
6. Repeat the previous three steps to delete the remaining subnets.
1. Delete the subnet in the ru-central1-a availability zone:
  yc vpc subnet delete e1lnabc23r1c********
  Result:
  done (1s) id: e1lnabc23r1c******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T16:23:12Z" network_id: enpabce123hd******** zone_id: ru-central1-a v4_cidr_blocks: - 192.168.1.0/24
2. Delete the subnet in the ru-central1-b availability zone:
  yc vpc subnet delete b1csa2b3clid********
  Result:
  done (1s) id: b1csa2b3clid******** folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv******** created_at: "2020-11-30T16:25:02Z" network_id: enpabce123hd******** zone_id: ru-central1-b v4_cidr_blocks: - 192.168.2.0/24
Use the delete REST API method for the Subnet resource or the SubnetService/Delete gRPC API call.
Delete the network:
Management console

CLI

API
1. In the management console, select the folder where you created the network.
2. Open the Virtual Private Cloud section.
3. In the line of the network you need, click and select Delete.
4. In the window that opens, click Delete.
```
yc vpc network delete yc-auto-network
```
Result:
```
id: enpabce123hd********
folder_id: b0g12ga82bcv********
created_at: "2020-11-30T14:57:15Z"
name: yc-auto-network
```
Use the delete REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/Delete gRPC API call.
Delete the service account:
Management console

CLI

API
1. In the management console, select the folder the service account belongs to.
2. At the top of the screen, go to the Service accounts tab.
3. In the line of the service account you need, click and select Delete.
4. Confirm the deletion.
```
yc iam service-account delete for-autoscale
```
Result:
```
done (2s)
```
Use the delete REST API method for the ServiceAccount resource or the ServiceAccountService/Delete gRPC API call.

How to create an infrastructure using Terraform

Terraform allows you to quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. Configuration files store the infrastructure description in the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). Terraform and its providers are distributed under the Business Source License.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or the mirror.

If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

To set up scaling for your instance group using Terraform:

Install Terraform and specify the source for installing the Yandex Cloud provider (see Configure a provider, step 1).

Prepare files with the infrastructure description:

Ready-made archive

Manually

Clone the repository with configuration files:

git clone https://github.com/yandex-cloud-examples/yc-vm-group-with-autoscale.git

Go to the directory with the repository. Make sure it contains the following files:
- vm-autoscale.tf: New infrastructure configuration.
- declaration.yaml: Description of the Docker container with a web server that will be run on a VM to simulate the service load.
- config.tpl: Description of VM user parameters.
- vm-autoscale.auto.tfvars: User data.

Create a directory for configuration files.

In the directory, create:

The vm-autoscale.tf configuration file:

vm-autoscale.tf

# Declaring variables for confidential parameters

variable "folder_id" {
  type = string
}

variable "vm_user" {
  type = string
}

variable "ssh_key" {
  type      = string
  sensitive = true
}

# Setting up the provider

terraform {
  required_providers {
    yandex = {
      source = "yandex-cloud/yandex"
      version = ">= 0.47.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "yandex" {
  zone = "ru-central1-a"
}

# Creating a service account and assigning roles to it

resource "yandex_iam_service_account" "for-autoscale" {
  name = "for-autoscale"
}

resource "yandex_resourcemanager_folder_iam_member" "vm-autoscale-sa-role-compute" {
  folder_id = var.folder_id
  role      = "editor"
  member    = "serviceAccount:${yandex_iam_service_account.for-autoscale.id}"
}

# Creating a cloud network and subnets

resource "yandex_vpc_network" "vm-autoscale-network" {
  name = "vm-autoscale-network"
}

resource "yandex_vpc_subnet" "vm-autoscale-subnet-a" {
  name           = "vm-autoscale-subnet-a"
  zone           = "ru-central1-a"
  v4_cidr_blocks = ["192.168.1.0/24"]
  network_id     = yandex_vpc_network.vm-autoscale-network.id
}

resource "yandex_vpc_subnet" "vm-autoscale-subnet-b" {
  name           = "vm-autoscale-subnet-b"
  zone           = "ru-central1-b"
  v4_cidr_blocks = ["192.168.2.0/24"]
  network_id     = yandex_vpc_network.vm-autoscale-network.id
}

# Creating a security group

resource "yandex_vpc_security_group" "sg-1" {
  name                = "sg-autoscale"
  network_id          = yandex_vpc_network.vm-autoscale-network.id
  egress {
    protocol          = "ANY"
    description       = "any"
    v4_cidr_blocks    = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    protocol          = "TCP"
    description       = "ext-http"
    v4_cidr_blocks    = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    port              = 80
  }
  ingress {
    protocol          = "TCP"
    description       = "healthchecks"
    predefined_target = "loadbalancer_healthchecks"
    port              = 80
  }
}

# Specifying a ready-made VM image

data "yandex_compute_image" "autoscale-image" {
  family = "container-optimized-image"
}

# Creating an instance group

resource "yandex_compute_instance_group" "autoscale-group" {
  name                = "autoscale-vm-ig"
  folder_id           = var.folder_id
  service_account_id  = yandex_iam_service_account.for-autoscale.id
  instance_template {

    platform_id = "standard-v3"
    resources {
      memory = 2
      cores  = 2
    }

    boot_disk {
      mode = "READ_WRITE"
      initialize_params {
        image_id = data.yandex_compute_image.autoscale-image.id
        size     = 30
      }
    }

    network_interface {
      network_id = yandex_vpc_network.vm-autoscale-network.id
      subnet_ids = [
        yandex_vpc_subnet.vm-autoscale-subnet-a.id,
        yandex_vpc_subnet.vm-autoscale-subnet-b.id
      ]
      security_group_ids = [ yandex_vpc_security_group.sg-1.id ]
      nat                = true
    }

    metadata = {
      user-data = templatefile("config.tpl", {
        VM_USER = var.vm_user
        SSH_KEY = var.ssh_key
      })
      docker-container-declaration = file("declaration.yaml")
    }
  }

  scale_policy {
    auto_scale {
      initial_size           = 2
      measurement_duration   = 60
      cpu_utilization_target = 40
      min_zone_size          = 1
      max_size               = 6
      warmup_duration        = 120
    }
  }

  allocation_policy {
    zones = [
      "ru-central1-a",
      "ru-central1-b"
    ]
  }

  deploy_policy {
    max_unavailable = 1
    max_expansion   = 0
  }

  load_balancer {
    target_group_name        = "auto-group-tg"
    target_group_description = "load balancer target group"
  }
}

# Creating a network load balancer

resource "yandex_lb_network_load_balancer" "balancer" {
  name = "group-balancer"

  listener {
    name        = "http"
    port        = 80
    target_port = 80
  }

  attached_target_group {
    target_group_id = yandex_compute_instance_group.autoscale-group.load_balancer[0].target_group_id
    healthcheck {
      name = "tcp"
      tcp_options {
        port = 80
      }
    }
  }
}

The declaration.yaml file with a description of the Docker container with a web server that will be run on a VM instance to simulate the service load:
declaration.yaml
```
spec:
containers:
- image: cr.yandex/yc/demo/web-app:v1
  securityContext:
    privileged: false
  tty: false
  stdin: false
```

The config.tpl file with VM user parameters:

config.tpl

users:
  - name: "${VM_USER}"
    groups: sudo
    shell: /bin/bash
    sudo: 'ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'
    ssh_authorized_keys:
      - "${SSH_KEY}"

vm-autoscale.auto.tfvars user data file:

vm-autoscale.auto.tfvars

folder_id = "<folder_ID>"
vm_user   = "<VM_username>"
ssh_key   = "<public_SSH_key_contents>"

For more information about the parameters of resources used in Terraform, see the provider documentation:

In the vm-autoscale.auto.tfvars file, set the user-defined parameters:
- folder_id: Folder ID.
- vm_user: VM username.
- ssh_key: Contents of the file with a public SSH key to authenticate the user on the VM. For more information, see Creating an SSH key pair.
Create resources:
1. In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
```
terraform validate
```
  If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
3. Run the command:
```
terraform plan
```
  The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
4. Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
5. Confirm the changes: type yes in the terminal and press Enter.
Test your instance group and network load balancer.
Test auto scaling.

Management console, CLI, and API: Use the Yandex Cloud management console, CLI, or API to create your infrastructure step by step.
Terraform: Streamline creating and managing your resources using the infrastructure as code (IaC) approach. Download a Terraform configuration example from the GitHub repository and then deploy the infrastructure using the Yandex Cloud Terraform provider.

Running instance groups with auto scaling

Prepare your cloudPrepare your cloud

Prepare the environmentPrepare the environment

Create an instance group with auto scaling and network load balancerCreate an instance group with auto scaling and network load balancer

Add a network load balancer with a target groupAdd a network load balancer with a target group

Test your instance group and network load balancerTest your instance group and network load balancer

Test auto scalingTest auto scaling

Delete the infrastructureDelete the infrastructure

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Prepare your cloud

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Create an instance group with auto scaling and network load balancer

Add a network load balancer with a target group

Test your instance group and network load balancer

Test auto scaling

Delete the infrastructure

How to create an infrastructure using Terraform