Google Cloud Networking Outage Caused by GCLB Configuration Bug | The DevOps Postmortem

On November 16, 2021, Google Cloud experienced a networking outage primarily affecting its Google External Proxy Load Balancing (GCLB) service. This disruption led to many websites and applications relying on Google Cloud displaying 404 errors. The incident impacted multiple Google Cloud products and downstream services for customers globally. 📚 Sources: • Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking - Google Cloud Service Health — https://status.cloud.google.com/incid... • Incident Review – Google Cloud Outage has Widespread Downstream Impact - Catchpoint — https://www.catchpoint.com/blog/incid... • Google Cloud Network Hit with Outage — https://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/br... 🔥 The DevOps Postmortem — real incidents, real lessons. Subscribe so you don't repeat them. #DevOps #SRE #Postmortem #CloudComputing #Kubernetes #IncidentResponse