Load Balancer
=============

.. note::

    Load Balancer API is available in Libcloud 0.5.0 and higher.

Load Balancer API allows you to manage Load Balancers as a service and services
such as Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers, GoGrid Load Balancers and Ninefold Load
Balancers.

Terminology
-----------

* :class:`~libcloud.loadbalancer.base.LoadBalancer` - represents a load
  balancer instance.
* :class:`~libcloud.loadbalancer.base.Member` - represents a load balancer
  member.
* :class:`~libcloud.loadbalancer.base.Algorithm` - represents a load balancing
  algorithm (round-robin, random, least connections, etc.).

Supported Providers
-------------------

For a list of supported providers see :doc:`supported providers page
</loadbalancer/supported_providers>`.

Examples
--------

We have :doc:`examples of several common patterns </loadbalancer/examples>`.

API Reference
-------------

For a full reference of all the classes and methods exposed by the loadbalancer
API, see :doc:`this page </loadbalancer/api>`.