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Overview

This guide covers platform-level administration of the Xloud Load Balancer service. Administrators configure provider drivers, define flavor profiles that govern appliance capacity, enforce per-project quotas, and monitor the health of the underlying infrastructure.
Administrator Access Required — This operation requires the admin role. Contact your Xloud administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.
The Load Balancer service is configured through the XDeploy Configuration panel:

Open Configuration

Navigate to XDeploy → Configuration and select the Load Balancer tab.

Enable the Load Balancer service

Set Enable Load Balancer to Yes.

Configure service parameters

Set the following options as needed:
SettingDescription
Controller InterfaceManagement network interface for appliance communication
Amphora NetworkNetwork and subnet used by load balancer appliances
Flavor SizingAppliance flavor (vCPU, RAM) for capacity tiers
TopologySingle or Active-Standby appliance topology
TLS CertificatesCertificate configuration for HTTPS termination

Save and deploy

Click Save Configuration, then navigate to XDeploy → Operations and run a Deploy or Reconfigure for the Load Balancer service.
Load Balancer service is deployed and operational.

Architecture

Controller-appliance topology, data plane, and management plane components.

Provider Drivers

View and configure the load balancing provider drivers available in your deployment.

Flavor Profiles

Create capacity tiers that users select at load balancer provisioning time.

Quotas

Enforce per-project resource limits for load balancers, listeners, pools, and members.

Monitoring

Monitor appliance health, connection statistics, and service component status.

Security

Restrict management plane access, manage TLS certificate lifecycle, and audit quota usage.

Troubleshooting

Resolve appliance provisioning failures, service outages, and high latency issues.

Quick Reference

TaskCommand
List all load balancers (admin)openstack loadbalancer list --all-projects
List all appliancesopenstack loadbalancer amphora list
Show service providersopenstack loadbalancer provider list
Show default quotasopenstack loadbalancer quota defaults show
Failover an applianceopenstack loadbalancer amphora failover <id>
Check service containersdocker ps --filter name=load-balancer

Next Steps

Load Balancer User Guide

Day-to-day operations — creating load balancers, pools, and health monitors.

Identity Admin Guide

Manage RBAC policies controlling load balancer resource access.