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Application Load Balancer

The STACKIT Application Load Balancer operates at Layer 7 to provide advanced traffic management for HTTP and HTTPS requests. It simplifies your architecture by offering SSL termination and precise routing based on content or paths, making it ideal for microservices.

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Basics

Learn the basics of STACKIT Application Load Balancer (ALB) including its features, benefits, and use cases.

Getting started

Follow these step-by-step guides to set up and configure your first STACKIT Application Load Balancer.

FAQ

Quickly find answers to frequently asked questions about STACKIT Load Balancer.

Troubleshooting

Resolve common issues to keep your Load Balancer running steadily.

Release notes

Stay up to date with the latest features, bug fixes, and deprecation notices for STACKIT's Load Balancer.

Latest updates

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    STACKIT Application Load Balancer API reaches general availability

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    We’re excited to announce that the Application Load Balancer (ALB) API is generally available as of 7 January 2026. The API is stable, fully supported, and ready for production workloads.

    Teams can integrate the ALB API into automation, CI/CD pipelines, and traffic management workflows with confidence in long-term support and compatibility.

    Roadmap

    We are working on expanding the ecosystem to support even more and better tooling:

    • Terraform provider: In the final stages of development. Native infrastructure as code support will be available soon.
    • Portal UI: A visual management dashboard is scheduled for release in March.
    • Web Application Firewall: Additional security capabilities to protect your applications from common web threats are under active development.

    Get started!

    Our updated documentation covers everything you need to start making calls:

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    STACKIT Load Balancer available in SKE

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    We are happy to announce that newly created SKE clusters will use the STACKIT Load Balancer.

    Previously, users could create and manage load balancers within SKE using a solution known as yawol. However, to better align with industry standards and best practices, we launch our dedicated STACKIT Load Balancer service.

    As of June 3, 2024, the transition to this dedicated service will begin. New SKE clusters created after this date will automatically provision STACKIT Load Balancer for every Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer.

    For more information, see our documentation on Load Balancer in SKE.

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    Essential Network Load Balancer is available as GA

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    We are happy to announce the release of our brand new service Essential Network Load Balancer.

    This service is designed to provide high availability for your application by distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers.

    How to Get Started

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    The API of the Essential Network Load Balancer enables easy integration into applications and workflows. It also provides extensive integration into various tools such as Terraform.

    With our getting started guide at our customer documentation you get everything to start right now.