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How to assign a floating IP to a Digital Oceans Load Balancer?

Posted July 24, 2017 4.3k views
Networking Load Balancing

Hi,
My website droplet has a floating IP assigned to it. As the popularity of the website is growing rapidly, I have now decided to mirror the droplet using a snapshot and place both droplets behind a load-balancer.

All pretty simple so far. I have mirrored the droplet without problems and created the load balancer but I now need to reassign the floating IP to point at the load balancer instead of the old droplet but the load balancer isn’t listed in the floating IP’s ‘reassign IP list’, and entering the load balancers IP address and/or name results in a 'no results found’ message.

Am I missing something or is there simply no way to do this yet? I know that load balancers were only released 5 months ago, so perhaps this functionality isn’t available yet?

Many thanks for your help.

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hansen July 24, 2017

Hi @gregb773f4bb684c5057f37f1d

Correct, it is currently not possible to assign a Floating IP to a Load Balancer.
It is a planned feature, but I don’t know anything more than that:
https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/18228658-allow-floating-ips-to-point-to-load-balancers

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rohitoRPBwrCxuJ February 18, 2019

Is there an ETA on this planned feature?

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jonaskello December 13, 2019

Or you could vote for this idea which is the same but currently have more votes :-)

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-538

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frankkumro March 2, 2019

Any update on this question? Can we now assign a floating ip to a load balancer?

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Queenapps March 4, 2019

Any update on this?

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yoeluk March 5, 2019

It would be great to have an update. If this is no longer in the roadmap maybe we should update the docs/blog? https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/what-is-high-availability

What is High Availability?
by Erika Heidi
With an increased demand for reliable and performant infrastructures designed to serve critical systems, the terms scalability and high availability couldn’t be more popular. While handling increased system load is a common concern, decreasing downtime and eliminating single...
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alta April 28, 2019

Hi,

Yes please, is there an update on this. We tried assigning a floating IP to a load balancer and it does not work.

Reading the article mentioned it states: “A more robust and reliable solution is to use systems that allow for flexible IP address remapping, such as floating IPs”. The illustrations in the article show multiple load balancers.

When will it be possible to assign a floating IP to a load balancer?

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eriksFGgZ May 15, 2019

Any update on when/if this will be implemented?

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nanosch June 3, 2019

Is there an update to this?

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admin9d6ce66d1e924920fafbe November 3, 2019

You should vote on this feature request if you want this to happen.
https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/FLIP-I-2

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roger.esteller December 18, 2019

Hello. Also waiting here :-)
Any feedback from DO?

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