Load Balancing - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Load Balancing: Load balancing distributes incoming work across multiple servers or runners so no single one is overwhelmed and capacity is used evenly.
Load balancing distributes incoming work across multiple servers or runners so no single one is overwhelmed and capacity is used evenly.
A load balancer spreads requests across a pool. It improves throughput and resilience because one busy or dead backend does not degrade the whole service.
In CI
A runner scheduler load-balances jobs across a fleet so builds start on whichever runner is free, keeping any one machine from queuing while others sit idle.
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