Overview

This topic explains the Unified Load Balancer (ULB), including its overview, key features, capabilities, benefits, and limitations.

ULB overview

Explains the Unified Load Balancer (ULB), a Cisco proprietary network function that manages traffic distribution across worker nodes to ensure high availability and reliability in network infrastructures.

ULB key features and capabilities

Explains the key features and capabilities of the ULB, including traffic distribution, client IP preservation, DSR, dynamic scaling, and service IP consistency.

Benefits of using ULB

Explains the benefits of using ULB, summarizing key parameters, requirements, and reference information. It covers why ULB is crucial for network performance, availability, scalability, security, and optimization.

Limitations

Use these guidelines when configuring EgressManagementPolicy for stateful applications without portRanges, as these limitations apply to IPv4 and StatefulSet workloads only.