Question
Can I load balance between regions using the App Platform?
- Posted on February 6, 2021
- DeploymentDigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by sebastianbrerup
I know there sit a loadbalancer between the request and my app and I can scale it, but is it possible to have instances living in different regions?
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👋 @sebastianbrerup
Currently a single app cannot span more than one region, however you could deploy your application in each region manually and set a third party global loudbalancer directing traffic to each of the provided ingress URLs.
Hi there,
A quick update here, DigitalOcean has announced new Global Load Balancers (currently in beta) which will allow you to distribute traffic to Droplets in different regions for high availability (HA) and performance.
Whereas regional load balancers distribute traffic within a single region, global load balancers span multiple regions and route users to your nearest available backend Droplet.
For more information you can check out this documentaiton here:
Or check out this introduction video here:
- Bobby