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doctl compute load-balancer add-forwarding-rules

Generated on 9 Apr 2025 from doctl version v1.124.0

Usage

doctl compute load-balancer add-forwarding-rules <load-balancer-id> [flags]

Use this command to add forwarding rules to a load balancer, specified with the --forwarding-rules flag. Valid rules include:

entry_protocol: The entry protocol used for traffic to the load balancer. Possible values are: http, https, http2, http3, tcp, or udp.
entry_port: The entry port used for incoming traffic to the load balancer.
target_protocol: The target protocol used for traffic from the load balancer to the backend Droplets. Possible values are: http, https, http2, http3, tcp, or udp.
target_port: The target port used to send traffic from the load balancer to the backend Droplets.
certificate_id: The ID of the TLS certificate used for SSL termination, if enabled. Can be obtained with doctl certificate list
tls_passthrough: Whether SSL passthrough is enabled on the load balancer.

Option	Description
`--forwarding-rules`	A comma-separated list of key-value pairs representing forwarding rules, which define how traffic is routed, e.g.: `entry_protocol:tcp,entry_port:3306,target_protocol:tcp,target_port:3306`.
`--help`, `-h`	Help for this command

Command	Description
doctl compute load-balancer	Display commands to manage load balancers

Option	Description
`--access-token`, `-t`	API V2 access token
`--api-url`, `-u`	Override default API endpoint
`--config`, `-c`	Specify a custom config file Default:
`--context`	Specify a custom authentication context name
`--http-retry-max`	Set maximum number of retries for requests that fail with a 429 or 500-level error Default: `5`
`--http-retry-wait-max`	Set the minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `30`
`--http-retry-wait-min`	Set the maximum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request Default: `1`
`--interactive`	Enable interactive behavior. Defaults to true if the terminal supports it (default false) Default: `false`
`--output`, `-o`	Desired output format [text\|json] Default: `text`
`--trace`	Show a log of network activity while performing a command Default: `false`
`--verbose`, `-v`	Enable verbose output Default: `false`