# Day 36: Load Balancing EC2 Instances with Application Load Balancer

Welcome to Day 36. Today, we will learn how to create a load-balanced EC2 instance with an application load balancer. In this lab, you need to set up an EC2 instance named **devops-ec2** and install and configure Nginx on this EC2 instance. After that, you need to create a target group named devops-tg and an application load balancer named **devops-alb**.

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```bash
sudo apt install nginx -y

sudo systemctl start nginx

sudo systemctl enable --now nginx

sudo systemctl status nginx
```

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Congratulations you did it. It looks good. This lab was successfully completed without any errors. See you in day 37. If you have any issues please let me know I will be happy to assist you. Stay tuned and learn together. If you find my article useful, please kindly like and share it.