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Load Balancing 101

Now that we know what load balancers are and why we need them, let’s discuss the types of load balancers. There are several specific types of load balancers, you might need to consider for your network.

While external load balancers are used to redirect external traffic to the cluster, the internal load balancer is used for internal service discovery and load balancing within the cluster. Random assignment is by far the least organized load balancing algorithm, and does exactly what it says.

Least Connection is a dynamic load balancing algorithm where client requests are directed to the application server with the least number of active connections at the time the client request is received.