aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

load-balancer-setup

Configure and deploy load balancers (HAProxy, AWS ELB/ALB/NLB) for distributing traffic, session management, and high availability.

First seen Jan 21, 2026

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SKILL.md

Load Balancer Setup

Table of Contents

  • [Overview](#overview)
  • [When to Use](#when-to-use)
  • [Quick Start](#quick-start)
  • [Reference Guides](#reference-guides)
  • [Best Practices](#best-practices)

Overview

Deploy and configure load balancers to distribute traffic across multiple backend servers, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal resource utilization across your infrastructure.

When to Use

  • Multi-server traffic distribution
  • High availability and failover
  • Session persistence and sticky sessions
  • Health checking and auto-recovery
  • SSL/TLS termination
  • Cross-region load balancing
  • API rate limiting at load balancer
  • DDoS mitigation

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
global
    log stdout local0
    log stdout local1 notice
    maxconn 4096
    daemon

    # Security
    tune.ssl.default-dh-param 2048
    ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
    ssl-default-bind-options ssl-min-ver TLSv1.2

defaults
    log global
    mode http
    option httplog
    option denylogin
    option forwardfor
    option http-server-close

    # Timeouts
    timeout connect 5000
    timeout client 50000
    timeout server 50000

// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
[HAProxy Configuration](references/haproxy-configuration.md) HAProxy Configuration
[AWS Application Load Balancer (CloudFormation)](references/aws-application-load-balancer-cloudformation.md) AWS Application Load Balancer (CloudFormation)
[Load Balancer Health Check Script](references/load-balancer-health-check-script.md) Load Balancer Health Check Script
[Load Balancer Monitoring](references/load-balancer-monitoring.md) Load Balancer Monitoring

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Implement health checks
  • Use connection pooling
  • Enable session persistence when needed
  • Monitor load balancer metrics
  • Implement rate limiting
  • Use multiple availability zones
  • Enable SSL/TLS termination
  • Implement graceful connection draining

❌ DON'T

  • Allow single point of failure
  • Skip health check configuration
  • Mix HTTP and HTTPS without redirect
  • Ignore backend server limits
  • Over-provision without monitoring
  • Cache sensitive responses
  • Use default security groups
  • Neglect backup load balancers