Let customers create network load balancers through the Datum Cloud API #718

What customers get

Customers can create a regional network load balancer through the Datum Cloud API to expose TCP and UDP services running in their VPC. They pick a region, the ports to listen on, and the backends to send traffic to. Datum assigns a public address, sends traffic only to healthy backends, and reports whether the load balancer is ready.

This is the API that the CLI and portal will build on.

Scope

• Create, update and delete a load balancer in one region
• A public address assigned automatically
• TCP and UDP listeners
• Backends from the customer's own VPC in the same region
• Health checks so failed backends stop receiving traffic
• Clear status showing whether the load balancer is serving

Progress

• Network load balancer API proposal
• Load balancer API
• IPv6 public addresses
• Traffic routing to backends
• Backend ownership checks
• Backend health checks
• Delivering load balancers to the edge

Related

• Network Load Balancers enhancement
• Load balancer engineering plan