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LoadBalancer.

The rented load balancer in front of the ingress: ports, health check, and how the client address is passed

Figure 1LoadBalancerspecified
LOADBALANCERdefinition at platform scopeaddressaddress80 and 443ports[count]the path probed on every ingress copyhealth_checktextthe header the ingress trusts only from this balancer; a connection without it is rejected (D-37)client_address_headertextbackends[MachineAddress]MACHINEADDRESSthrough backends
LoadBalancer is a definition at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.
kind
definition
scope
platform
key
its address
store
postgres
family
network

Fields#

fieldtyperequirednote
addressaddressyes
ports[count]yes80 and 443
health_checktextyesthe path probed on every ingress copy
client_address_headertextyesthe header the ingress trusts only from this balancer; a connection without it is rejected
backendsMachineAddressyes

Routes that use it#

No route takes or returns LoadBalancer directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.