Load Balancers

DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of backend resources in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a service from depending on the health of a single server, cluster, or region.

Getting Started

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Reference

API and CLI reference documentation for managing Load Balancers, including example requests and available parameters.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Load Balancers.

Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

Support

Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.

Latest Updates

28 February 2025

• Network load balancers are now in now in public preview. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. You must opt-in to the public preview to create network load balancers.

• IPv6 support for regional external load balancers is now in general availability. You may now choose between IPv4-only or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking when you create standalone load balancers. All DOKS load balancers created after 28 February 2025 are dual-stack.

12 December 2024

• Internal-only regional load balancers are now in general availability. Internal load balancers have no public IP address and are only accessible to resources in the same VPC network. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers for more details. To learn how to add internal load balancers to DOKS clusters, see Configure Load Balancers in the DOKS documentation.

15 October 2024

• You can now create internal-only regional load balancers. Internal load balancers have no public IP address and are only accessible by resources in the same VPC. This feature is currently in early availability and only available through the CLI and API.

For more information, see all Load Balancers release notes.