Planning your load balancer
Explore the configuration choices available for your Cloudflare load balancer.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the difference between load balancing at different layers of the network stack.
- Identify when a load balancer should utilize session affinity.
- Describe the different policies for endpoint steering and traffic steering.
- List the different options available to monitor server health.
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