IBM Cloud Load Balancer for VPC

Public or private load balancer distributing traffic across VPC backends at layer 7 or layer 4 with health checks.

Provider: ibm
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-load-balancers

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
family · component property	enum	application \| network	no	—	inherited
global	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
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
tlsTermination · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
visibility · component property	enum	public \| private	no	—	inherited

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  - { id: "load-balancer", component: "ibm-load-balancer" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# IBM Cloud Load Balancer for VPC: the application load balancer distributes traffic at layer 7
3# across virtual servers, bare metal servers and Power Systems Virtual Servers, with configurable
4# health monitoring and HTTPS listeners that terminate TLS. A public load balancer "has a public IP
5# address" and a private one "has a private IP address"; round robin, weighted round robin and
6# least connections are the distribution methods ("Creating an application load balancer").
7schemaVersion: "1"
8type: "component"
9id: "ibm-load-balancer"
10kind: "load-balancer"
11provider: "ibm"
12docs: "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-load-balancers"
13defaults:
14  managed: true
15  layer: "l7"
16  healthChecks: true
17  global: false
18properties:
19  family:
20    type: "enum"
21    values: ["application", "network"]
22  visibility:
23    type: "enum"
24    values: ["public", "private"]
25  tlsTermination:
26    type: "boolean"
27    default: false

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