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#  Manage Load Balancers

<div className="head">Create Load Balancer</div>
<div className="text"><ol><li> Log in to the dashboard.</li><li>Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left</li></ol></div>

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<div className="text">3. Navigate to  <span className="blue">Project</span> > <span className="blue">Network</span>  >  <span className="blue">Load Balancers</span> </div><br/>

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<div className="text">4. Click on <span className="blue"> Create Load Balancer</span> add following details in <span className="blue"> Load Balancer Details </span> tab, and click <span className="blue"> Next.</span></div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Load Balancer Name</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Subnet</td>
      <td>Select exiting private subnet</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>

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<div className="text">5. Add following details in  <span className="blue">Listener Details</span> tab and click <span className="blue"> Next.</span></div><br/>


<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Listener name</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Protocol </td>
      <td>Listener protocol</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Port</td>
      <td>If custom port is specified in Protocol field then we need to specify the listening port</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>

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<div className="text">6. Add following details in <span className="blue"> Pool Details </span> tab and click <span className="blue">Next. </span> </div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Pool name</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Algorithm</td>
      <td>Load balancing algorithm. Available algorithms are<span className="blue"> ROUND_ROBIN, LEAST_CONNECTIONS</span> and <span className="blue"> SOURCE_IP.</span></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>

<img src={bal05} alt="Load Balancer " /><br/><br/>

<div className="div">7. Select servers from the list below and add in the pool. Mention port for each member in Pool Members
tab and click <span className="blue">Next.</span></div> <br/>

<img src={bal06} alt="Load Balancer " /><br/><br/>

<div className="text">8. Add following details in <span className="blue"> Monitor Details</span> tab and click <span className="blue">Create Load Balancer</span></div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Listener name</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Type</td>
      <td>Monitor type</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br/>



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<div className="text">9. Load Balancer wil take couple of minutes to provision and transition from Pending Create to Active
state.</div>



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<div className="text">10. If load balancer needs to be accessed over internet, then we need assign floating ip. Open the
dropdown of the loadbalancer and click on Associate Floating IP.</div>

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<div className="text">11. Select the floating IP already reserved to the project. If none are available select public IP subnet, it will
automatically allocate a floating IP</div>



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<div className="text">12. Click on the dropdown beside load balancer name to view the details. We can find the Public IP
assigned to the load balancer in the details.</div>


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<div className="text">13.Following is a script to check if LB is functioning properly</div>