DigitalOcean: Internal Load Balancer Now Generally Available

The DigitalOcean team has just announced that its Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now generally available to all customers of the cloud computing platform.

Internal Load Balancer

Designed to scale internal workloads while keeping your services secure, the Internal Load Balancer helps you route internal traffic efficiently and privately.

Check out the benefits:

• Private Load Balancing: Distribute traffic using private IPs to keep your internal workloads secure and isolated from the public internet.
• Secured Global Scaling: Combine the Internal Load Balancer with the Global Load Balancer (GLB) to scale workloads globally while maintaining security and isolating backend services.
• VPC Peering Compatibility: Enable secure, private communication between services and pods across different VPCs with Internal Load Balancer and VPC peering.
• Service Connectivity: Expose DOKS services within the VPC network using the Internal Load Balancer to keep traffic internal.
• Simplified Management: Set up an Internal Load Balancer in a few clicks – no more manual configuration.

With this regional load balancer, DigitalOcean lets you distribute incoming HTTP, TCP, or UDP traffic across your Droplets and Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters using private IP addresses, ensuring that your services remain shielded from the public internet.