IBM VPC Load Balancer Config Builder

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Build VPC Application and Network Load Balancer configs with listeners, pools, and health monitors.

IBM Cloud VPC Load Balancer Configuration

Build VPC Application and Network Load Balancer configs with listeners, pools, health monitors, and routing policies.

Required Fields

nametypesubnetslistenerspools

{
  "name": "prod-web-alb",
  "type": "application",
  "isPublic": true,
  "resourceGroup": "prod-resources",
  "subnets": [
    { "id": "subnet-us-south-1-web", "zone": "us-south-1" },
    { "id": "subnet-us-south-2-web", "zone": "us-south-2" }
  ],
  "securityGroups": ["web-lb-sg"],
  "listeners": [
    {
      "protocol": "https",
      "port": 443,
      "certificateInstance": "crn:v1:bluemix:public:secrets-manager:us-south:a/acct-id:sm-instance:secret:cert-id",
      "defaultPool": "web-pool",
      "policies": [
        {
          "name": "api-route",
          "action": "forward",
          "priority": 1,
          "rules": [
            { "type": "path", "condition": "starts_with", "value": "/api" }
          ],
          "targetPool": "api-pool"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "protocol": "http",
      "port": 80,
      "defaultPool": "redirect-pool",
      "httpsRedirect": {
        "statusCode": 301,
        "targetListener": "https-443"
      }
    }
  ],
  "pools": [
    {
      "name": "web-pool",
      "algorithm": "round_robin",
      "protocol": "http",
      "healthMonitor": {
        "type": "http",
        "delay": 5,
        "maxRetries": 2,
        "timeout": 2,
        "urlPath": "/health"
      },
      "sessionPersistence": { "type": "app_cookie", "cookieName": "SERVERID" },
      "members": [
        { "address": "10.240.0.10", "port": 8080, "weight": 50 },
        { "address": "10.240.64.10", "port": 8080, "weight": 50 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "api-pool",
      "algorithm": "least_connections",
      "protocol": "http",
      "healthMonitor": {
        "type": "http",
        "delay": 10,
        "maxRetries": 3,
        "timeout": 5,
        "urlPath": "/api/health"
      },
      "members": [
        { "address": "10.240.1.10", "port": 3000, "weight": 50 },
        { "address": "10.240.65.10", "port": 3000, "weight": 50 }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Generated Output

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How It Helps

Build VPC Application and Network Load Balancer configs with listeners, pools, and health monitors. This tool helps IBM Cloud engineers generate valid configurations quickly without consulting documentation, reducing errors and accelerating infrastructure deployment. All processing runs in your browser with no data sent to external servers.

Things Engineers Ask

Does this tool connect to my IBM Cloud account?

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser and generates configuration JSON that you can copy and paste into your infrastructure-as-code templates, CLI commands, or cloud console. It never connects to any cloud account or sends data externally.

Are the generated configurations production-ready?

The tool produces syntactically valid configurations based on current IBM Cloud service specifications. Always review generated configs against your organization security policies and test in a non-production environment before deploying.

Practical Applications

1Generating configurations for new IBM Cloud infrastructure deployments.
2Validating existing configurations against best practices before applying changes.
3Learning IBM Cloud service configuration patterns through interactive examples.
4Accelerating infrastructure-as-code development by producing correct JSON/YAML starting points.

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