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In case of a 7 application , where the servers are added and removed dynamically and are short lived , which type of Load Balancer s used

rvigneshramanujam

Dec 20, 2025

In case of a Microservice application , where the servers are added and removed dynamically and are short lived , which type of Load Balancer algorithm s used

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mkoriya.py 2 months ago

They use combination of L7 and L4 load balancer, if we take example of microservices architecture with Kubernetes

client -> api gateway (L7 load balancer with auth, rate limit, routing configs) -> Kubernetes Service (L4 load balancer using kube-proxy, where default alg...

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  1. Round Robin

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  1. Least Connections

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Comparison to Round Robin

  1. Weighted Round Robin

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  1. Weighted Least Connections

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  1. IP Hash

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  1. Least Response Time

How Least Response Time Load Balancing Works

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  1. Random

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  1. Least Bandwidth

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  1. Custom Load

How Custom Load Load Balancing Works

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