How to Manage Vultr Global Load Balancer Regions
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How to Manage Vultr Global Load Balancer Regions
Global Load Balancer Regions enable the distribution of traffic depending on your user locations by creating child Load Balancer instances linked to a parent Load Balancer. You can create one child Load Balancer in each Vultr region and link multiple instances to distribute traffic. User requests to the parent Load Balancer are routed to the nearest child Load Balancer in a region depending on the user’s location.
Follow this guide to manage Vultr Global Load Balancer regions using the Vultr Customer Portal, API or CLI.
- Vultr Customer Portal
- Navigate to Products and click Load Balancers.
- Open the parent (global) Load Balancer.
- In the Location table, click the
+icon to Add Locations. - Select one or more regions and click Add Locations. This provisions child Load Balancers in the selected regions.
- For each region row:
- Use the Network column (if shown) to select the VPC/network for the child.
- Use the
+icon in the Instances column to attach instances in that region.
- Vultr API
- Send a
GETrequest to the List Regions endpoint and note your target region ID.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/regions" \ -X GET \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
- Send a
GETrequest to the List Load Balancers endpoint and note your target Load Balancer’s ID.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/load-balancers" \ -X GET \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
- Send a
PATCHrequest to the Update Load Balancer endpoint to create a child Load Balancer in the target region.console$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/load-balancers/{load-balancer-id}" \ -X PATCH \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "global_regions": [ "{region_1_id}", "{region_2_id}" ] }'
- Vultr CLI
- List all the region IDs, note down the required region IDs.
console
$ vultr-cli regions list - List all available instances and note the target Load Balancer’s ID.
console
$ vultr-cli load-balancer list - Update the instance by adding a region ID to provision a child Load Balancer in the target regions.
console
$ vultr-cli load-balancer update <load_balancer_id> --global-regions <region_1_id> <region_2_id>
How to Manage Vultr Global Load Balancer Regions Global Load Balancer Regions enable the distribution of traffic depending on your user locations by creating child Load Balancer instances linked to a parent Load Balancer. You can create one child Load Balancer in each Vultr region and link multiple instances to…
How to Manage Vultr Global Load Balancer Regions Global Load Balancer Regions enable the distribution of traffic depending on your user locations by creating child Load Balancer instances linked to a parent Load Balancer. You can create one child Load Balancer in each Vultr region and link multiple instances to…