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# IBM Cloud Load Balancer

The IBM Cloud Load Balancer service helps customers improve availability of their applications by distributing traffic among multiple application server instances.

## Get started

- [Getting started with IBM Cloud Load Balancer ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-getting-started&format=markdown)
- [About IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-about-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
- [Load balancer basics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-ibm-cloud-load-balancer-basics&format=markdown)
- [Exploring IBM Cloud load balancers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-explore&format=markdown)
- [Demo: Network as a service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-naas-video&format=markdown)
- [Other resources for IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-other-resources-for-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
- [What is load balancing?](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/load-balancing)

## How to

- Using an elastic load balancer for server load balancing
   - [Creating a load balancer service overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-creating-and-using-an-ibm-cloud-load-balancer-for-elastic-server-load-balancing&format=markdown)
   - [Selecting the service and configuring basic options](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-configuring-ibm-cloud-load-balancer-basic-parameters&format=markdown)
   - [Configuring load-balancing options and placing your order](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-configure-load-balancing-parameters-and-place-order&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring and managing your service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-monitoring-and-managing-your-service&format=markdown)
- [Setting up Terraform for IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-terraform-setup&format=markdown)
- Performing load balancer advanced tasks
   - [Choosing a preferred cipher suite for your HTTPS application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-choosing-a-preferred-cipher-suite-for-your-https-application&format=markdown)
   - [Performing health checks](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-performing-health-checks-with-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
   - [SSL offload with IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-ssl-offload-with-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
   - [Advanced traffic management with IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-advanced-traffic-management-with-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
   - [Monitoring metrics by using IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-monitoring-metrics&format=markdown)
   - [Setting back-end encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-setting-backend-encryption&format=markdown)
   - [Logging for IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-ibm-cloud-logging&format=markdown)
   - [Selecting Point of Delivery (PoD) based locations by using the CLI and API](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-selecting-pod&format=markdown)
- Layer 7 support
   - [Layer 7 load balancing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-layer-7-load-balancing&format=markdown)
   - [Layer 7 policy](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-layer-7-policy&format=markdown)
   - [Layer 7 rules](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-layer-7-rules&format=markdown)
   - [Layer 7 pool](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-layer-7-pool&format=markdown)

## Reference

- [IBM Cloud Load Balancer API reference](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-api-reference&format=markdown)
- [Terraform reference](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/lb_service)

## Help

- [Known issues and limitations with IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-known-issues-and-limitations-with-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
- [FAQ for IBM Cloud Load Balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-faqs-for-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)
- Troubleshooting
   - [Why is my back-end server's health failing?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-the-back-end-server-is-unhealthy&format=markdown)
   - [Common issues when creating a new load balancer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-load-balancer-provisioning-troubleshooting&format=markdown)
   - [Error message troubleshooting](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-error-message-troubleshooting&format=markdown)
- [Getting help and support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/loadbalancer-service?topic=loadbalancer-service-getting-help-and-support-for-ibm-cloud-load-balancer&format=markdown)