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The IBM© Cloud Load Balancer service helps improve scalability and availability of your business-critical applications. It monitors the health of your application servers, utilizes smart load balancing methods to distribute traffic among multiple servers, and dynamically adjusts its system capacity to handle varying traffic load.
In this Step-by-Step guide you will learn how to configure the service.
| Task | Description |
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| Create Your Load Balancer | Begin by creating your load balancer service. |
| Configure Basic Parameters | Configure your Load Balancer. |
| Identify your application resources | Identify the your application's resources, such as origin pools and health check mechanisms. |
| Review and order your load balancer | Review the contents of your order before placing it. |
| Monitor and manage your service | Edit your configuration and monitor your service performance. |