Service Certificate – STACKIT Basic Loadbalancer
Service Name
STACKIT Basic Loadbalancer (Alpha development stage, DEPRECATED)
High level service description
The STACKIT Basic Loadbalancer (Alpha development stage) (“Loadbalancer”) provides a free, compact, and integrated Loadbalancer with the most important basic functions. This allows customers to balance the load of incoming requests across different STACKIT compute engines (virtual machines) or services and can thus increase their overall availability. The Loadbalancer operates mainly on ISO/OSI layer 4, but can also selectively include ISO/OSI layer 7 (e.g. for balancing algorithms).
The Loadbalancer is a free service for testing purposes and is in the Alpha stage of development. The Loadbalancer will not be further developed and may be discontinued by SIT at any time without notice. Productive use is not recommended.
Key Features
- Definition of different listeners and protocols for the traffic to be distributed
- Different health checks for the validation of the target systems
- Combination of several target systems into so-called backend pools for handling customer traffic
- High availability through active/passive mechanism
Service Plans
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Metric
- There is no calculation of the Loadbalancer, because the Loadbalancer is a free service for testing purposes.
SLA Specifics
- As a free service for testing purposes, the Loadbalancer is not subject to any availability promise (SLA) by SIT. Accordingly, the customer has no claim to compliance with an availability level.
Backup
- Backup and recovery of the Loadbalancer are the responsibility of the customer.
- The Loadbalancer has no backup or restore functionality. When using the Loadbalancer, the customer must independently ensure that it documents its configuration when setting it up and, in the event of an error, sets up a new Loadbalancer with the corresponding configuration again.
Additional Terms
- The Loadbalancer is a free service for testing purposes in terms of the STACKIT Cloud Conditions of Use. As such, it is subject in particular to limited liability by SIT.
- Migration to alternative products, if required, is the responsibility of the customer.
- The Loadbalancer can only be ordered via the Infrastructure API.
- The Loadbalancer is explicitly not recommended for productive use since it is in the Alpha stage of development.
- The Third Party Terms set forth below apply between the customer and the manufacturer of the operating system:
- Furthermore, the Third Party Terms of: