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Manage Load Balancers
To manage load balancers, navigate to the Network >> Load Balancers menu. You can see a list of Load Balancers created before, if any.
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Create a Load Balancer
To Create a new one, click Create button on the top right of the Load Balancers page. You can see a page to create a new load balancer.
- Specifications: This section contains some fields
- Name: Load balancer name
- Type: Load Balancer
- Algorithm: Round Robin. The Load Balancer use Round Robin to distribute client requests across a group of instances.
- Pricing Plan
- External IP Address: You need to have a reserved external IP address before creating a load balancer. You can reserve one if you don’t have any.
- Frontend Ports: represent the port and protocol that will be used to access your application.
- Backend: Backend represent the target instances or services that receive traffic from the load balancer. Choose the instance and define the port and protocol that runs the application.
- Click the Create button to save and apply the configuration.
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View & Update a Load Balancer
Click the name to see the details. In the details page, you can update the following:
- Update the name
- Change pricing plan
- Add or remove frontend ports
- Add or remove backends
Click Update button to save the changes.
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Delete a Load Balancer
To do so, complete these steps:
- Find the load balancer you want to delete on the Load Balancer page.
- Click the action button on the right, then choose Delete.
- Confirm your action.