DigitalOcean Load Balancers are a fully-managed, highly available network load balancing service. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets, which decouples the overall health of a backend service from the health of a single server to ensure that your services stay online.
Scaling a load balancer lets you adjust its performance to its workload by changing the number of nodes the load balancer contains. You can scale load balancers up or down at anytime to meet your traffic needs.
You can scale a load balancer to adjust its performance to its workload. Scaling changes the number of nodes the load balancer contains. You can scale load balancers up or down at anytime to meet your traffic needs.
Each additional node increases the load balancer’s maximum:
You can add up to 100 nodes to a load balancer.
Use the --size-unit
flag to set the new number of nodes for the load balancer.
Use the size_unit
field to set the new number of nodes for the load balancer.
To scale a load balancer from the DigitalOcean Control Panel, click Networking, then click Load Balancers to go to the load balancer overview page. Click on the name of the load balancer you want to scale, then click the Settings tab.
In the Scaling Configuration section, click Resize. In the Number of nodes field, select the new amount of nodes you would like the load balancer to scale to. As you change the amount of nodes, the load balancer’s connection specifications and price update to give you an overview of the load balancer’s overall capabilities and monthly cost.
Once you’ve selected the new number of nodes, click Update Node Count. The load balancer drops all open connections and then scales.
Once the load balancer has scaled, the Scaling Configuration section of the Settings page reflects the load balancer’s new amount of nodes.