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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ __A reminder on Services__: A Kubernetes Service defines a set of pods and a mea
 
 ### L7 Load balancing on Kubernetes
 
-To achive L7 loadbalancing through Kubernetes, we employ a resource called `Ingress`. The Ingress is consumed by this loadbalancer controller, which creates the following GCE resource graph:
+To achieve L7 loadbalancing through Kubernetes, we employ a resource called `Ingress`. The Ingress is consumed by this loadbalancer controller, which creates the following GCE resource graph:
 
 [Global Forwarding Rule](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/global-forwarding-rules) -> [TargetHttpProxy](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/target-proxies) -> [Url Map](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/url-map) -> [Backend Service](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/backend-service) -> [Instance Group](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/)