Frontend

Navigate to the Frontend Creation tab

From your load balancer's overview page, click on the "Frontends" tab, then click the "Create" button.

Basic Information

Fill in the basic information for your frontend.

• Name: Give your frontend a name.
• Port: The frontend will listen for traffic on this port.
• Mode: Choose between "HTTP" and "TCP" mode, use "HTTP" if you need control over HTTP parameters like path, headers, etc, otherwise "TCP" would be fast and efficient.

Forward Client Real IP Address

Activated by default, this writes the client's real IP address, port and protocol to X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Port and X-Forwarded-Proto headers, which can be crucial for your application.

Bind Ports

Your frontend can listen on multiple ports (for example, 80 and 443 for HTTP and HTTPS), you may also specify SSL certificates for TLS termination (feature coming soon).

Conditions (ACLs)

You can add conditions to your frontend to route traffic to the correct place.

For example, you can route traffic based on subdomain using Host header. Example:

• Host equals "api.mydomain.com" -> route to "my-api-backend"
• And "auth.mydomain.com" -> route to "my-auth-backend". Or based on path (using Path condition). Example:
• Path begins with "/v0.1/"

Backend Switching Rules

This section enables you to choose which backend to use based on the conditions you defined.