Create a Load Balancer

Create a load balancer for your project. This load balancer will be used to distribute traffic between Droplets within the same datacenter.

Create the Load Balancer

DigitalOcean documentation for this process can be found at How to Create Load Balancers.

1. From your project's Control Panel, click Create and select Load Balancer. The Create Load Balancer page appears.
2. For Choose a datacenter region, select the same region that you selected for the Reblaze droplet.

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3. For Forwarding rules, set the following rules for both the Load Balancer and the Droplet:

   1. Select Protocol HTTP with Port 80

   2. Select Protocol HTTPS with Port 443

   3. For HTTPS, select a Certificate using one of the following methods: Note that Reblaze only supports HTTP/HTTPS and only regular ssl (no passthrough).

      • Select an existing certificate that was already uploaded. Certificates are managed from the left-side navigation panel: under Account, click Security.
      • Click + New certificate > Use Let's Encrypt to create a fully-managed SSL certificate. This option can be used if you manage your domain with DigitalOcean DNS.

        1. Select the domain you want to use.

        2. (optional) Select any other subdomains to include, either existing or new.

        3. Enter a name for the certificate, then click Generate Certificate.

      • Click + New certificate > Bring your own certificate. Use this option if you want to upload an existing certificate, or if you prefer to manage your DNS with another provider and want to generate your own certificate.

        1. Enter the name, certificate, private key, and certificate chain in the respective fields

        2. Click Save SSL Certificate.

4. Enter a name for the load balancer.

5. Select the project. If you have only one project, that project is already provided.

6. Click Create Load Balancer. The load balancer page appears, where you can view the progress of the load balancer deployment.
7. When the deployment is complete, click Choose Droplets. The Add Droplets to the load balancer popup appears.
8. Enter the tag that you gave to the Reblaze deployment, then click that tag from the list. The load balancer tag is updated and the load balancer is connected to the Reblaze deployment.

Continue with Create a Firewall.