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Load Balancer
How can I configure my load balancer
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upon load balancer creation, to configure new policies navigate to the load balancer menu and click option + add new policies in the policies menu fill the options regarding the balancing you need to create name a name for the load balancer rule public port the port that receives the incoming traffic to be balanced private port the port that the vms will use to receive the traffic protocol tcp/udp/tcp proxy algorithm choose the load balancing algorithm you want to use \ round robin requests are distributed sequentially to each server in a circular manner \ least connections new requests are directed to the server with the fewest active connections \ source requests from the same client are consistently routed to the same server sticky session useful for applications that store data in memory (also known as session persistence) the available session options are \ lbcookie load balancer generates and manages its own cookie to maintain session stickiness across requests \ appcookie stickiness is based on a specific application defined cookie (user provides the cookie name) \ sourcebased stickiness is based on the client’s source ip address, same ip gets routed to the same backend \ none no session stickiness, each request is independently balanced select instance choose the vm from your infrastructure to apply load balancing policy & hit submit to deploy your instance