Load Balancers

DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a backend service from depending on the health of a single server or a single region.

Getting Started

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Reference

API and CLI reference documentation for managing Load Balancers, including example requests and available parameters.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Load Balancers.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Support

Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.

Latest Updates

8 July 2024

• DigitalOcean Global Load Balancers are now in beta. Global load balancers allow you to distribute traffic to Droplets in different regions for high availability and performance.

24 January 2023

• We have deprecated our legacy load balancer scaling system in all datacenter regions. This includes the deprecation of the do-loadbalancer-size-slug annotation for DigitalOcean Kubernetes load balancers.

  Horizontal scaling is now available in all regions.

6 December 2022

• You can now customize the amount of time a load balancer allows HTTP connections to remain idle before closing it. The maximum amount time you can set is 600 seconds (10 minutes).

  Setting a custom time out length has no effect on HTTPS and HTTP/2 forwarding rules using TLS passthrough.

For more information, see all Load Balancers release notes.