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Component 10 · L4/L7

Load Balancers

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Why use a load balancer?

A load balancer presents a virtual service and distributes client connections or requests across healthy backend servers. It can operate at Layer 4, Layer 7 or both.

Client
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VIP
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Load balancer
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Servers
Engineer takeaway

The client often connects to a virtual service, not directly to one server.

Learning sequence

Review this playbook as often as needed before moving to the next component.

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