Load Balancer

Note

Load Balancer API is available in Libcloud 0.5.0 and higher.

Load Balancer API allows you to manage Load Balancers as a service and services such as Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers, GoGrid Load Balancers and Ninefold Load Balancers.

Terminology

  • LoadBalancer - represents a load balancer instance.
  • Member - represents a load balancer member.
  • Algorithm - represents a load balancing algorithm (round-robin, random, least connections, etc.).

Supported Providers

For a list of supported providers see supported providers page.

Examples

We have examples of several common patterns.

API Reference

For a full reference of all the classes and methods exposed by the loadbalancer API, see this page.