Katapult Load Balancers are designed to enhance application reliability by efficiently distributing incoming traffic across multiple virtual machines. This ensures optimal performance and high availability for applications experiencing significant traffic.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Simple Management: Easily configure load balancers through an intuitive console, streamlining setup and management processes.
- HTTPS Enforcement: Automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS, ensuring secure communication without manual server configurations.
- Flexible Targeting: Route traffic to specific virtual machines, groups, or those tagged with particular identifiers, offering versatile traffic management options.
- Health Checks: Continuously monitor the health of virtual machines to ensure only healthy instances receive traffic, maintaining application stability.
- SSL Certificate Integration: Manage SSL certificates seamlessly using Katapult's Certificate Manager, Let's Encrypt, or pass-through mode for enhanced security.
- API Access: Utilize the Katapult API to manage load balancers and monitor their status programmatically, facilitating automation and integration.
- Connection Encryption: Encrypt connections between load balancers and virtual machines to safeguard data in transit.
- Advanced Routing Algorithms: Distribute requests intelligently using round-robin, least connections, or sticky routing methods to optimize load distribution.
- Proxy Protocol Support: Relay client information to virtual machines as if requests originated from the end-user, preserving source details.
Primary Value and User Solutions:
Katapult Load Balancers address the challenges of managing high-traffic applications by ensuring even distribution of incoming requests, preventing any single machine from becoming a bottleneck. This leads to improved application performance, reduced downtime, and a seamless user experience. By automating traffic distribution and health monitoring, Katapult Load Balancers minimize manual intervention, allowing developers and businesses to focus on core operations while maintaining robust and scalable infrastructures.
