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title: Supporting HTTP2
owner: CF for VMs Networking
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This topic explains how <%= vars.app_runtime_full %> (<%= vars.app_runtime_abbr %>) uses http2, and how operators can configure their load balancer to support HTTP2.

Operators will need to configure their load balancers to allow http2 traffic, ingress and egress, to allow Developers to use the full feature set of http2.
One feature such as GRPC will require full end-to-end http2 traffic.


## Enabling HTTP2 on the gorouter


## <a id='config'></a> Configure Your Load Balancer for HTTP2

To form an HTTP2 connection, the client sends an HTTP request that contains an `Upgrade` header and other headers required to complete the ALPN handshake.



## Specific IAAS

### VSPHERE

Using NZX-T
1. When creating a load balancer, make sure to choose an L4 load balancer


### AWS



### GCP



### Azure

Add rough outline for HTTP/2 operator docs
Add rough outline for HTTP/2 operator docs

[cloudfoundry/routing-release#200]

Co-authored-by: Matthew Kocher <36d7b0fc4fd8f4bd5f07b94f361afe1fff08fb46@vmware.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Oleske <5ee1759fa2b206f4179a3d3dcdff3e539e4275e1@vmware.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Kocher <36d7b0fc4fd8f4bd5f07b94f361afe1fff08fb46@vmware.com>
