Load Balancing UI and Feature Enhancements
Rich, complex rules for advanced load balancing

Rich, complex rules for advanced load balancing

7/16/2021 · Brian Batraski, Tim Polich

What this post added

Introduced a custom rule builder for Cloudflare Load Balancing, built on the open-source wirefilter execution engine. This allows users to define complex traffic steering logic using 'and'/'or' statements based on various request attributes (path, headers, query strings, cookies, IP source addresses) for both DNS and proxied load balancing. This enables advanced use cases such as segmenting high-volume e-commerce transactions based on query string values and implementing split-horizon DNS by routing based on IP source address.

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