Health Checks
Before routing traffic to a container, the load balancer often performs health checks to ensure that the container is running and healthy. If a container is found to be unhealthy, the load balancer will route traffic to other healthy containers.
What is Container Load Balancing?
Container load balancing refers to the process of distributing incoming network traffic across a group of containers running the same application. This is done to ensure that the containers can handle the traffic efficiently and effectively, providing high availability, scalability, and performance for the application.
Containers are lightweight, standalone, and executable packages that contain everything needed to run an application, including the code, runtime, libraries, and dependencies.
- Container load balancing is typically done using a load balancer that sits in front of the containers and routes traffic to them based on a set of predefined rules.
- The load balancer can distribute traffic evenly across the containers or use more advanced algorithms to optimize the distribution based on factors such as server load, response time, and geographic location.