A Load Balancer acts like a smart traffic manager. Instead of sending all requests to a single server, it distributes them across multiple servers (instances/VMs) to keep things fast, reliable, and always available. If one server goes down, the Load Balancer automatically directs traffic to healthy ones, ensuring your applications stay online.

Load Balancer Actions

You can perform the following actions related to load balancing:

• Create Load Balancer
• Edit Load Balancer
• Delete Load Balancer
• Associate Floating IP

Create Load Balancer

To create a Load Balancer in the Pico Cloud Console, follow these steps:

• Go to the Load Balancer section.
• Click on the Create button (top-right corner).
• Fill in the required details, such as:
  • Select the Product
  • Load Balancer Name
  • Description
  • Select Subnet
  • IP Address (Optional)
  • Select the Admin State
• Review your configuration.
• Click Done to launch the Load Balancer.
• Click Load balancer and create a pool 
• Fill in the required details, such as:
  • Pool Name
  • Description
  • Select Session Persistence
  • Algorithm 
  • Protocol
  • Admin State up (true/false)
• Click on new pool and add the pool member
• Fill in the required details, such as:
  • Name
  • IP address
  • Subnet 
  • Port
  • Weight
  • Select Admin State
  • Select Backup (If required)

Click Done, and once the pool member is added, test the LB.