Why Automate Cloud-Native Load Balancing Configuration Changes?
Application and network load balancers ensure that important web-based applications and services are always available to customers and end-users. This makes them a critical part of the network infrastructure of most organizations. Originally, application load balancers were deployed as physical appliances in data centers, but in today’s modern network environment there is an increase in the use of cloud-native load balancing services and cloud-based virtual load balancing devices. Maintaining daily changes across cloud and on-prem devices has become a burden for network and application teams, which has resulted in backlogs that increase the time it takes to roll out new web applications and services.
Enterprises are looking toward automation to reduce the time it takes to deploy services and applications across a very complex IT infrastructure. Many enterprises find automating certain areas of this process very straightforward, but automating changes to network infrastructure, like application load balancers, has become a challenge. Because of this, network teams have been forced into remaining with manual processes, which has slowed the automation process and created significant backlog and increased time to completion.
Network automation helps to:
- Reduce the time required to implement new applications and services.
- Increase the number of changes that can be safely made at once.
- Avoid outages and degraded service by eliminating misconfigurations due to human error.
Automating Load Balancing with Itential
The Itential Automation Platform simplifies the automation of cloud-native load balancing configuration changes by providing capabilities for:
Supporting All Cloud-Native & Cloud-Based Services
API-based integration with AWS, Azure, or GCP load balancing services, as well as cloud-based SaaS services from application load balancing vendors.
Coordinating Changes Across the Network
Load balancing changes may also require other network infrastructure changes, which can be automated as part of the same process.
Integration with IT Systems & Services
Load balancing changes can be integrated with IPAM, ITSM, networking monitoring, or telemetry systems for larger, end-to-end automations.
Itential Supports Cloud-Native Load Balancing Configuration Changes for All Devices
Itential Pre-Built Workflows for Load Balancing
With Itential’s Pre-Built Workflows, network and application teams can onboard existing automations and components that support cloud-native load balancing services, cloud-based SaaS services, or traditional on-prem appliances.
