A Target Group is a named pool of backend targets that a Load Balancer forwards traffic to. It is a pure container — it carries only metadata. You populate it with Static or Service Discovery targets, and a Listener Rule's forward action points at it and chooses the backend ports.

Key concepts

• Targets — the backends in the group are separate resources: Static Target (a fixed IP/hostname) or Service Discovery Target (label-selected)

• Ports — the group has no port of its own; the backend ports come from the rule's toPorts

• Referenced by rules — a Listener Rule's forward action sets targetGroupId to this group

A target group has no spec of its own — only the common metadata below.

Examples

An empty target group. Add backends with a Static Target or Service Discovery Target that references it.

Terraform

Python SDK

kc CLI

Related pages

Resource docs

• Static Target resource docs
• Service Discovery Target resource docs

Examples

• CLI load balancing example
• Terraform load balancing example

More in this section

• Load Balancer
• Listener
• Listener Rule