Load Balancer Quickstart
The essentials to create a load balancer, attach Droplets, manage SSL certificates, and delete the load balancer.
Getting Started with Load Balancers
Last verified 22 Jun 2026
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 backend resources in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a service from depending on the health of a single server, cluster, or region.
How to Work with DigitalOcean Load Balancers Using doctl
Use the official command-line client for DigitalOcean’s API to create and configure a load balancer for multiple backend web servers.