# Setting Up a Load Balancer

> You can configure a load balancer on your Sisense Linux cloud instances to automatically distribute traffic across multiple nodes. This provides an externally-accessible IP address that sends traffic to the correct port on your cluster nodes.

*Source: https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/setting-up-a-load-balancer.htm*

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Last updated: June 10, 2026

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You can configure a load balancer on your Sisense Linux cloud instances to automatically distribute traffic across
multiple nodes. This provides an externally-accessible IP address that sends traffic to the correct port on your
cluster nodes.

Sisense supports load balancing for Google GKE, Microsoft AKS, and Amazon EKS.

You can enable a load balancer when configuring your deployment as described here or you can update your
configuration file and then run the configuration script again.

**To implement load balancing:**

1. In the cloud\_config.yaml file:

   - For an internet-facing load balancer, set:
     - **cloud\_load\_balancer** to **true**
     - **cloud\_load\_balancer\_internal** to **false**
   - For an internal load balancer, set:
     - **kubernetes\_cloud\_provider** to **aws**
     - **cloud\_load\_balancer** to **true**
     - **cloud\_load\_balancer\_internal** to **true**
2. After you have set the remaining parameters, run the script with the following command.

   `./sisense.sh cloud_config.yaml`

**To switch an internet-facing load balancer to an internal load balancer, or vice versa:**

1. Delete the old load balancer by either:
   - deleting the Kubernetes service that creates the load balancer (that is, api-gateway-external)
   - deleting the load balancer resource directly from the cloud provider dashboard

To handle Sisense traffic in an existing Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS, Sisense supports using an AWS Load
Balancer Controller for managing a cluster's Elastic Load Balancers, see [Using an AWS Load Balancer Controller with Sisense on Amazon EKS](https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/using-an-aws-load-balancer-controller-with-sisense-on-amazon-eks.md) .