OCI Load Balancer

Public

Private

Accept traffic from internet

Regional

regional subnet and two AD's

primary and stdby in each AD for HA

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Assigns it a private IP

the service requires only one subnet to host both the primary and standby load balancers

The load balancer is accessible only from within the VCN that contains the host subnet

or as further restricted by your security rules.

BackendSets (Compute instances)

route incoming traffic to your compute instances

Is the Logical entry

A list of backend servers.

A load balancing policy.

A health check policy.

Optional SSL handling.

Optional session persistence configuration.

The backend servers (compute instances) associated with a backend set can exist anywhere, as long as the associated network security groups (NSGs), security lists, and route tables allow the intended traffic flow.