Cloudflare Load Balancing

cloudflare Load balancercloudflare-load-balancing

Global layer 7 load balancing across pools with health monitors and automatic failover.

Provider: cloudflare
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/session-affinity/

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
global	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
hashing	enum	round-robin \| least-connections \| ecmp \| maglev \| consistent \| random	no	round-robin	inherited
healthChecks	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
instances	integer	—	no	—	inherited
layer	enum	l4 \| l7	no	l7	▸ l7
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
sessionAffinity · component property	enum	none \| cookie \| ip-cookie \| header	no	none	inherited
sessionAffinityTtlSeconds · component property	integer	—	no	82800	inherited
steeringPolicy · component property	enum	standard \| geo \| dynamic \| proximity \| least-outstanding-requests	no	—	inherited

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Cloudflare Load Balancing: global layer 7 load balancing across pools on the anycast edge.
3# "Load Balancing" and "Session affinity": monitors probe endpoints from multiple data centers and
4# traffic fails over automatically; session affinity is off by default, cookie sessions last 23 hours.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "cloudflare-load-balancing"
8kind: "load-balancer"
9provider: "cloudflare"
10docs: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/session-affinity/"
11defaults:
12  managed: true
13  layer: "l7"
14  global: true
15  healthChecks: true
16properties:
17  steeringPolicy:
18    type: "enum"
19    values: ["standard", "geo", "dynamic", "proximity", "least-outstanding-requests"]
20  sessionAffinity:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["none", "cookie", "ip-cookie", "header"]
23    default: "none"
24  sessionAffinityTtlSeconds:
25    type: "integer"
26    default: 82800

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/cloudflare-load-balancing.md