Route production traffic

Now that you have set up your load balancer and verified everything is working correctly, you can put the load balancer on a live domain or subdomain:

1. If you update your pools and monitors, review the pool health again to make sure everything is working as expected.
2. Confirm that your production hostname has the correct priority order of DNS records and is covered by an SSL/TLS certificate.
3. Configure your load balancer to receive production traffic, which could involve either:
   • Editing the Hostname of your existing load balancer.
   • Updating the CNAME record sending traffic to your load balancer.

Note

If you have an Enterprise account, also evaluate your application for any excluded paths. For example, you might not want the load balancer to distribute requests directed at your /admin path. For any exceptions, set up an origin rule or page rule.

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