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A load balancer is, for example, used to distribute traffic to multiple worker nodes to scale horizontally. It can also be used for canary deployments where yo
by purerandomness 5y ago
A load balancer is, for example, used to distribute traffic to multiple worker nodes to scale horizontally.
It can also be used for canary deployments where you roll out a feature to 1% of your user base.
There are several other use cases. I'm pretty sure 'saving IP addresses' is not a use case you'd use a load balancer for.