Load Balancing Policy

Summary

Load Balancing Policy defines the load balancing strategy between multiple upstream servers.

See Envoy documentation for more details.

How to configure

Some policy types support additional configuration.

Core

Config file keys	Type	Usage	Default
lb_policy	enum	optional	ROUND_ROBIN

Enterprise

Set the Load Balancing Policy in the Console:

Kubernetes

Annotation name	Type	Usage	Default
ingress.pomerium.io/lb_policy	enum	optional	ROUND_ROBIN

See Kubernetes Ingress for more information

Load Balancing Policy options

Load Balancer Policy options
ROUND_ROBIN
RING_HASH (may be further configured using ring_hash_lb_config option)
LEAST_REQUEST (may be further configured using least_request_lb_config)
RANDOM
MAGLEV (may be further configured using maglev_lb_config option)

Examples

routes:
  - from: https://myapp.localhost.pomerium.io
    to:
      - http://myapp-srv-1:8080
      - http://myapp-srv-2:8080
      - http://myapp-srv-3:8080
      - http://myapp-srv-4:8080
      - http://myapp-srv-5:8080
    lb_policy: LEAST_REQUEST
    least_request_lb_config:
      choice_count: 2 # current envoy default