create_target_group¶

ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.create_target_group(**kwargs)¶

Creates a target group.

For more information, see the following:

This operation is idempotent, which means that it completes at most one time. If you attempt to create multiple target groups with the same settings, each call succeeds.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.create_target_group(
    Name='string',
    Protocol='HTTP'|'HTTPS'|'TCP'|'TLS'|'UDP'|'TCP_UDP'|'GENEVE',
    ProtocolVersion='string',
    Port=123,
    VpcId='string',
    HealthCheckProtocol='HTTP'|'HTTPS'|'TCP'|'TLS'|'UDP'|'TCP_UDP'|'GENEVE',
    HealthCheckPort='string',
    HealthCheckEnabled=True|False,
    HealthCheckPath='string',
    HealthCheckIntervalSeconds=123,
    HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds=123,
    HealthyThresholdCount=123,
    UnhealthyThresholdCount=123,
    Matcher={
        'HttpCode': 'string',
        'GrpcCode': 'string'
    },
    TargetType='instance'|'ip'|'lambda'|'alb',
    Tags=[
        {
            'Key': 'string',
            'Value': 'string'
        },
    ],
    IpAddressType='ipv4'|'ipv6'
)

Parameters

Name (string) --
[REQUIRED]

The name of the target group.

This name must be unique per region per account, can have a maximum of 32 characters, must contain only alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and must not begin or end with a hyphen.
Protocol (string) -- The protocol to use for routing traffic to the targets. For Application Load Balancers, the supported protocols are HTTP and HTTPS. For Network Load Balancers, the supported protocols are TCP, TLS, UDP, or TCP_UDP. For Gateway Load Balancers, the supported protocol is GENEVE. A TCP_UDP listener must be associated with a TCP_UDP target group. If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply.
ProtocolVersion (string) -- [HTTP/HTTPS protocol] The protocol version. Specify GRPC to send requests to targets using gRPC. Specify HTTP2 to send requests to targets using HTTP/2. The default is HTTP1 , which sends requests to targets using HTTP/1.1.
Port (integer) -- The port on which the targets receive traffic. This port is used unless you specify a port override when registering the target. If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply. If the protocol is GENEVE, the supported port is 6081.
VpcId (string) -- The identifier of the virtual private cloud (VPC). If the target is a Lambda function, this parameter does not apply. Otherwise, this parameter is required.
HealthCheckProtocol (string) -- The protocol the load balancer uses when performing health checks on targets. For Application Load Balancers, the default is HTTP. For Network Load Balancers and Gateway Load Balancers, the default is TCP. The TCP protocol is not supported for health checks if the protocol of the target group is HTTP or HTTPS. The GENEVE, TLS, UDP, and TCP_UDP protocols are not supported for health checks.
HealthCheckPort (string) -- The port the load balancer uses when performing health checks on targets. If the protocol is HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, TLS, UDP, or TCP_UDP, the default is traffic-port , which is the port on which each target receives traffic from the load balancer. If the protocol is GENEVE, the default is port 80.
HealthCheckEnabled (boolean) -- Indicates whether health checks are enabled. If the target type is lambda , health checks are disabled by default but can be enabled. If the target type is instance , ip , or alb , health checks are always enabled and cannot be disabled.
HealthCheckPath (string) --
[HTTP/HTTPS health checks] The destination for health checks on the targets.

[HTTP1 or HTTP2 protocol version] The ping path. The default is /.

[GRPC protocol version] The path of a custom health check method with the format /package.service/method. The default is /Amazon Web Services.ALB/healthcheck.
HealthCheckIntervalSeconds (integer) -- The approximate amount of time, in seconds, between health checks of an individual target. The range is 5-300. If the target group protocol is TCP, TLS, UDP, TCP_UDP, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 30 seconds. If the target group protocol is GENEVE, the default is 10 seconds. If the target type is lambda , the default is 35 seconds.
HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds (integer) -- The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response from a target means a failed health check. The range is 2–120 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of HTTP, the default is 6 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of TCP, TLS or HTTPS, the default is 10 seconds. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 5 seconds. If the target type is lambda , the default is 30 seconds.
HealthyThresholdCount (integer) -- The number of consecutive health check successes required before considering a target healthy. The range is 2-10. If the target group protocol is TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP, TLS, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 5. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 5. If the target type is lambda , the default is 5.
UnhealthyThresholdCount (integer) -- The number of consecutive health check failures required before considering a target unhealthy. The range is 2-10. If the target group protocol is TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP, TLS, HTTP or HTTPS, the default is 2. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the default is 2. If the target type is lambda , the default is 5.
Matcher (dict) --
[HTTP/HTTPS health checks] The HTTP or gRPC codes to use when checking for a successful response from a target. For target groups with a protocol of TCP, TCP_UDP, UDP or TLS the range is 200-599. For target groups with a protocol of HTTP or HTTPS, the range is 200-499. For target groups with a protocol of GENEVE, the range is 200-399.
- HttpCode (string) --
  For Application Load Balancers, you can specify values between 200 and 499, with the default value being 200. You can specify multiple values (for example, "200,202") or a range of values (for example, "200-299").
  
  For Network Load Balancers, you can specify values between 200 and 599, with the default value being 200-399. You can specify multiple values (for example, "200,202") or a range of values (for example, "200-299").
  
  For Gateway Load Balancers, this must be "200–399".
  
  Note that when using shorthand syntax, some values such as commas need to be escaped.
- GrpcCode (string) --
  You can specify values between 0 and 99. You can specify multiple values (for example, "0,1") or a range of values (for example, "0-5"). The default value is 12.
TargetType (string) --
The type of target that you must specify when registering targets with this target group. You can't specify targets for a target group using more than one target type.
- instance - Register targets by instance ID. This is the default value.
- ip - Register targets by IP address. You can specify IP addresses from the subnets of the virtual private cloud (VPC) for the target group, the RFC 1918 range (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16), and the RFC 6598 range (100.64.0.0/10). You can't specify publicly routable IP addresses.
- lambda - Register a single Lambda function as a target.
- alb - Register a single Application Load Balancer as a target.
Tags (list) --
The tags to assign to the target group.
- (dict) --
  Information about a tag.
  - Key (string) -- [REQUIRED]
    The key of the tag.
  - Value (string) --
    The value of the tag.
IpAddressType (string) -- The type of IP address used for this target group. The possible values are ipv4 and ipv6 . This is an optional parameter. If not specified, the IP address type defaults to ipv4 .

Return type

dict

Returns

Response Syntax

{
    'TargetGroups': [
        {
            'TargetGroupArn': 'string',
            'TargetGroupName': 'string',
            'Protocol': 'HTTP'|'HTTPS'|'TCP'|'TLS'|'UDP'|'TCP_UDP'|'GENEVE',
            'Port': 123,
            'VpcId': 'string',
            'HealthCheckProtocol': 'HTTP'|'HTTPS'|'TCP'|'TLS'|'UDP'|'TCP_UDP'|'GENEVE',
            'HealthCheckPort': 'string',
            'HealthCheckEnabled': True|False,
            'HealthCheckIntervalSeconds': 123,
            'HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds': 123,
            'HealthyThresholdCount': 123,
            'UnhealthyThresholdCount': 123,
            'HealthCheckPath': 'string',
            'Matcher': {
                'HttpCode': 'string',
                'GrpcCode': 'string'
            },
            'LoadBalancerArns': [
                'string',
            ],
            'TargetType': 'instance'|'ip'|'lambda'|'alb',
            'ProtocolVersion': 'string',
            'IpAddressType': 'ipv4'|'ipv6'
        },
    ]
}

Response Structure

(dict) --
- TargetGroups (list) --
  
  Information about the target group.
  - (dict) --
    
    Information about a target group.
    - TargetGroupArn (string) --
      
      The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the target group.
    - TargetGroupName (string) --
      
      The name of the target group.
    - Protocol (string) --
      
      The protocol to use for routing traffic to the targets.
    - Port (integer) --
      
      The port on which the targets are listening. Not used if the target is a Lambda function.
    - VpcId (string) --
      
      The ID of the VPC for the targets.
    - HealthCheckProtocol (string) --
      
      The protocol to use to connect with the target. The GENEVE, TLS, UDP, and TCP_UDP protocols are not supported for health checks.
    - HealthCheckPort (string) --
      
      The port to use to connect with the target.
    - HealthCheckEnabled (boolean) --
      
      Indicates whether health checks are enabled.
    - HealthCheckIntervalSeconds (integer) --
      
      The approximate amount of time, in seconds, between health checks of an individual target.
    - HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds (integer) --
      
      The amount of time, in seconds, during which no response means a failed health check.
    - HealthyThresholdCount (integer) --
      
      The number of consecutive health checks successes required before considering an unhealthy target healthy.
    - UnhealthyThresholdCount (integer) --
      
      The number of consecutive health check failures required before considering the target unhealthy.
    - HealthCheckPath (string) --
      
      The destination for health checks on the targets.
    - Matcher (dict) --
      
      The HTTP or gRPC codes to use when checking for a successful response from a target.
      - HttpCode (string) --
        
        For Application Load Balancers, you can specify values between 200 and 499, with the default value being 200. You can specify multiple values (for example, "200,202") or a range of values (for example, "200-299").
        
        For Network Load Balancers, you can specify values between 200 and 599, with the default value being 200-399. You can specify multiple values (for example, "200,202") or a range of values (for example, "200-299").
        
        For Gateway Load Balancers, this must be "200–399".
        
        Note that when using shorthand syntax, some values such as commas need to be escaped.
      - GrpcCode (string) --
        
        You can specify values between 0 and 99. You can specify multiple values (for example, "0,1") or a range of values (for example, "0-5"). The default value is 12.
    - LoadBalancerArns (list) --
      
      The Amazon Resource Names (ARN) of the load balancers that route traffic to this target group.
      - (string) --
    - TargetType (string) --
      
      The type of target that you must specify when registering targets with this target group. The possible values are instance (register targets by instance ID), ip (register targets by IP address), lambda (register a single Lambda function as a target), or alb (register a single Application Load Balancer as a target).
    - ProtocolVersion (string) --
      
      [HTTP/HTTPS protocol] The protocol version. The possible values are GRPC , HTTP1 , and HTTP2 .
    - IpAddressType (string) --
      
      The type of IP address used for this target group. The possible values are ipv4 and ipv6 . This is an optional parameter. If not specified, the IP address type defaults to ipv4 .

Exceptions

ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.exceptions.DuplicateTargetGroupNameException
ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.exceptions.TooManyTargetGroupsException
ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.exceptions.InvalidConfigurationRequestException
ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.exceptions.TooManyTagsException

Examples

This example creates a target group that you can use to route traffic to targets using HTTP on port 80. This target group uses the default health check configuration.

response = client.create_target_group(
    Name='my-targets',
    Port=80,
    Protocol='HTTP',
    VpcId='vpc-3ac0fb5f',
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'TargetGroups': [
        {
            'HealthCheckIntervalSeconds': 30,
            'HealthCheckPath': '/',
            'HealthCheckPort': 'traffic-port',
            'HealthCheckProtocol': 'HTTP',
            'HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds': 5,
            'HealthyThresholdCount': 5,
            'Matcher': {
                'HttpCode': '200',
            },
            'Port': 80,
            'Protocol': 'HTTP',
            'TargetGroupArn': 'arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-west-2:123456789012:targetgroup/my-targets/73e2d6bc24d8a067',
            'TargetGroupName': 'my-targets',
            'UnhealthyThresholdCount': 2,
            'VpcId': 'vpc-3ac0fb5f',
        },
    ],
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}

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