Eba Outsourcing Guidelines define how to configure, deploy, and maintain an external load balancer without losing performance or control. They strip away noise and focus on the core requirements: high availability, fault tolerance, and consistent routing rules.
External load balancers sit at the edge of your system. They direct traffic across multiple servers, prevent overload, and allow seamless scaling. In the Eba model, outsourcing this component means removing it from your internal infrastructure and trusting a third-party service. That trust hinges on following the guidelines exactly.
First, define clear connection limits and timeout rules based on your application’s traffic profile. These values must prevent idle connections from consuming resources while avoiding premature drops during peak load.
Second, enforce TLS termination at the load balancer level. This reduces CPU work on backend servers and centralizes certificate management. Eba’s documentation stresses using strong cipher suites and renewing certificates before expiration to prevent service interruptions.