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Overview

This guide covers platform-level administration of the Polystack 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 Polystack administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.
The Load Balancer service is configured through the deployment console Configuration panel:

Open Configuration

Navigate to the deployment console → 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:

Save and deploy

Click Save Configuration, then navigate to the deployment console → 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

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.