Load Balancer - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A load balancer spreads incoming requests across healthy backends to balance load and route around failures.
A load balancer distributes incoming network requests across multiple backend instances to spread load, improve availability, and route around unhealthy targets.
Deploys register and deregister backends behind a load balancer. Its health checks decide when a new instance actually starts receiving traffic.
Health-check gating
A new pod only receives traffic once the load balancer marks it healthy, so mismatched health-check and readiness settings can cause dropped requests during a rollout.
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