Orchestrating Cloud-Native Load Balancing Configuration Changes with Itential

Application and network load balancers ensure that important web-based applications and services are always available to customers and end-users. This makes them a critical part of the network infrastructure of most organizations. Originally, application load balancers were deployed as physical appliances in data centers, but in today’s modern network environment there is an increase in the use of cloud-native load balancing services and cloud-based virtual load balancing devices. Maintaining daily changes across cloud and on-prem devices has become a burden for network and application teams, which has resulted in backlogs that increase the time it takes to roll out new web applications and services.

Enterprises are looking toward orchestration to reduce the time it takes to deploy services and applications across a very complex IT infrastructure. Many enterprises find automating certain areas of this process very straightforward, but orchestrating changes to network infrastructure, like application load balancers, has become a challenge. Because of this, network teams have been forced into remaining with manual processes, which has slowed the orchestration process and created significant backlog and increased time to completion.

Network orchestration helps to:

• Reduce the time required to implement new applications and services.
• Increase the number of changes that can be safely made at once.
• Avoid outages and degraded service by eliminating misconfigurations due to human error.

Itential Pre-Built Workflows for Load Balancing