Create Load Balancer

A Load balancer distributes traffic among different nodes. You have the ability to configure your load balancer as required. A Load balancer has a single public-facing virtual IP Address and port on one side and nodes on the other side: traffic into the virtual IP may be delivered to the IP Address of any of the contained nodes. The reverse mapping occurs for outbound traffic. If you need to provide load balancing for more than one virtual IP address or more than one port on a single virtual IP address, you must create multiple load balancers. Note: a load balancer without a virtual IP address and at least two nodes is not useful

POST /accounts/{accountId}/loadbalancers

This operation will create a new load balancer.

Request

URI Parameters

accountId - string

The selected account Id.

Request Body

 {
    "region": "{regionTextKey}",
    "displayName": "{lbName}",
    "port": {lbPort},
    "protocol": "{lBProtocol}",
    "virtualIp": "{lbVirtualIp}",
    "algorithm": "{ROUND_ROBIN or SOURCE_IP}",
    "timeout": {timeout},
    "nodes" : [
                   {
                       "serverRef": "{serverRefURL}",
                       "port" : {port1}
                   },
                   {
                       "serverRef": "{serverRefURL}",
                       "port" : {port2}
                   }
               ]
    "sessionPersistence" : {
                       "persistenceType":"HTTP_COOKIE"
               },          
    "healthMonitor" :      {
               "protocol":"{hcProtocol}",
               "interval": {hcInterval},
               "port": {hcPort},
               "uri": {uri},
               "attemptsBeforeDeactivation": {hcAttemptsBeforeDeactivation},
               "attemptsBeforeActivation" : {hcAttemptsBeforeActivation}
           },
 }

Parameters

region - string

region TextKey where LB will be created

displayName - string

Display name for this load balancer.

port - integer

range 1 ~ 65535

the port number to switch traffic for.

protocol - string

either 'TCP' or 'HTTP'

virtualIp - string

if this is omitted, LB will allocate a new virtual ip to this account

this virtual ip that must be owned by this account in advance or available one

IPv4 or IPv6 possible

algorithm - string

LB distribution algorithm

either 'ROUND_ROBIN' or 'SOURCE_IP'

timeout - integer

node-check and connect timeout

nodes

list of node

should include at least one node when creating a LB

nodes.serverRef - string

the URL ref of a node

nodes.port - integer

range 1 ~ 65535

the ports on node that LB forward traffic to

nodes.condition - string

the condition of a node, ENABLED or DISABLED

Response

Response Codes

201 Created

400 Bad Request

401 Unauthorized

This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required.

409 Conflict

The resource already exists. (there is already a load balancer with that name or a load balancer already bound to the virtualIp/port combination specified)

Response Headers

Location

Returned with successful 201 response. Contains the new LB URI. The client must use this URI for all subsequent operations with the LB.

Examples

Request

POST /accounts/{accountId}/loadbalancers
Content-Type: application/json; Charset=UTF-8
Authorization: Base64-encoded username & password string

{
    "region": "AUSTIN",
    "displayName" : "Test Load Balancer",
    "port": 80,
    "protocol": "HTTP",
    "algorithm": "ROUND_ROBIN",
    "timeout": 30,
    "nodes": [
        {
            "serverRef": "http://{hostname}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{serverId-1}",
            "port": 80
        }, {
            "serverRef": "http://{hostname}/accounts/{accountId}/flexcloud/servers/{serverId-2}",
            "port": 80
        }
    ]        
}

Response

201 Created
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Location : </nowiki>{{APIBaseURL}}<nowiki>/account/{accountId}/loadbalancer/{lbId}