Elevate load balancing with Private IPs and Cloudflare Tunnels: a secure path to efficient traffic distribution

This post introduces Private Network Load Balancing, which extends Cloudflare's load balancing capabilities to private IP addresses within data centers by integrating with Cloudflare Tunnels. It allows for intelligent steering policies (e.g., least outstanding requests, hash steering) to be applied at the origin server level, removing the need for physical load balancers and simplifying configuration through the Cloudflare dashboard. The solution aims to provide a unified approach to global and internal load balancing.