Load balancer in Cleura Cloud

Overview

Cleura Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) enables reliable and scalable traffic distribution across your infrastructure. Built on OpenStack Octavia, it provides a straightforward way to ensure high availability, efficient resource use, and fault tolerance for applications and services running in Cleura Cloud.

Flexible Traffic Management

The service supports both Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing, making it suitable for a wide range of workloads from simple TCP or UDP services to complex HTTP(S) applications. Incoming requests are intelligently routed to healthy backend members, improving performance and minimizing downtime.

Security and Performance

Cleura Load Balancer supports SSL termination, allowing you to handle encryption directly at the load balancer level. This approach simplifies certificate management and improves backend efficiency. Combined with built-in health monitoring, the service ensures consistent delivery and resilient operations even under heavy load.

Integration and Automation

You can provision, configure, and manage load balancers through the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, the OpenStack CLI, or directly via API. The service is fully compatible with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, making it easy to integrate into automated deployment pipelines.

High Availability by Design

Each load balancer operates within your project’s network and can be deployed for internal or public use. Built-in redundancy and zonal isolation provide stable performance and reduce the risk of service interruptions across distributed environments.

Integration with other networking features

Load Balancers integrate directly with Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Security Groups, and Routers & Floating IPs to distribute traffic efficiently across compute instances or container workloads. Together, these components provide high availability, performance, and controlled exposure of services to the public internet. All load-balancing operations are executed inside Cleura regions, maintaining data locality.

What is Cleura Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS)?

It’s a service built on OpenStack Octavia that distributes network traffic across multiple instances or services to ensure reliability, scalability, and high availability.

What types of traffic does the service support?

Cleura Load Balancer supports both Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) and Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) traffic, making it suitable for a broad range of applications.

How does the service improve security and performance?

It supports SSL termination to handle encryption at the load balancer level, simplifying certificate management and improving backend efficiency.

Can I automate configuration and deployment?

Yes. Load balancers can be provisioned and managed through the Cleura Cloud Panel, OpenStack CLI, API, or automated via tools like Terraform and Ansible.

Is high availability built into the service?

Yes. The service uses redundancy and zonal isolation to maintain uptime and minimize the impact of infrastructure failures.

How does it integrate with other Cleura networking components?

Load Balancers integrate seamlessly with Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Security Groups, and Routers & Floating IPs to ensure controlled exposure, efficient routing, and consistent performance within Cleura regions.

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