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Load Balancer

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Create a tool to confirm that a Load Balancer will migrate to a new cluster

I needed to delete a cluster which had 1 NLB and 2 ALB's defined. It was created using the default which is not to persist. I wanted to use it in a new cluster. My choices were to recreate them or detach them from the original cluster, which requi...
2 months ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

VPC application load balancer idle-timeout-value

We are using VPC application(db2wh) load balancer on OpenShift IBM cloud environment and some of the job needs connection to be open for more than the maximum acceptable value (i.e. 7200sec.) using annotation - service.kubernetes.io/ibm-load-balan...
6 months ago in Load Balancer 0 Functionality already exists

VPC Load balancer Pool Member down alert not showing on sysdig

These are defects and will be handled as a Jira. Pls see https://github.ibm.com/NetworkTribe/ELBaaS-VPC/issues/10011 Point: 1. If we configure an alert on PRD LB, we are not able to pinpoint the exact source of the 500 error. Point 2: If we config...
7 months ago in Load Balancer 5 Is a defect

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
almost 3 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

Show private IP address of Bluemix load balancer

How do I know the private IP address of Bluemix load balancer on the SoftLayer customer portal? Should be shown IP addresses on the load balancer property, or on the Network subnet, not just primary IP but Bluemix load balancer.
about 6 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Not under consideration