Generic load balancer
Load balancerload-balancer
Vendor-neutral load balancer. Use when the real product is not in the catalogue; every rule for this kind still applies.
- Provider
- default
- Kind
- Load balancer
- Category
- Edge
- Official docs
- not recorded
- Generic?
- Vendor-neutral: the kind itself
| property | type | values | required | default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| connectionPreserving | boolean | — | no | false |
| global | boolean | — | no | false |
| hashing | enum | round-robin | least-connections | ecmp | maglev | consistent | random | no | round-robin |
| healthChecks | boolean | — | no | true |
| instances | integer | — | no | — |
| layer | enum | l4 | l7 | no | l7 |
| managed | boolean | — | no | false |
Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.
No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.
nodes:
- { id: "load-balancer", component: "load-balancer" }Server Load Balanceralibaba-slbAWS Application Load BalanceralbAWS Classic Load Balanceraws-classic-load-balancerAWS Global Acceleratoraws-global-acceleratorAWS Gateway Load Balanceraws-gwlbAWS Network Load BalancernlbAzure Application Gatewayazure-application-gatewayApplication Gateway for Containersazure-application-gateway-for-containersAzure Load Balancerazure-load-balancerCloudflare Load Balancingcloudflare-load-balancingCloudflare Spectrumcloudflare-spectrumApache HTTP Serverapache-httpdBFEbfeCaddycaddyContourcontourEnvoyenvoyF5 BIG-IPf5-big-ipHAProxyhaproxyKeepalivedkeepalivedLoad balancerload-balancer-tierloxilbloxilbMetalLBmetallbNGINXnginxTraefiktraefikDigitalOcean Load Balancersdigitalocean-load-balancerGoogle Cloud Load Balancinggoogle-cloud-load-balancingIBM Cloud Load Balancer for VPCibm-load-balancerKubernetes Gatewayk8s-gatewayIngressk8s-ingressServicek8s-serviceOCI Load Balanceroci-load-balancerNetwork Load Balanceroci-network-load-balancerOpenStack Octaviaopenstack-octaviaLoad Balancer Unit (LBU)outscale-lbu
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json # The vendor-neutral load balancer: the kind itself, with no product behind it. It sets no # defaults and adds no properties, so every required kind property stays required on the node. schemaVersion: "1" type: "component" id: "load-balancer" kind: "load-balancer" provider: "default"