In the quest for more resilient, cost-effective, and sovereign digital infrastructures, European companies are increasingly looking to build their own hybrid and multi-cloud environments — without relying entirely on hyperscalers.
To support this need, LayerOps is introducing a powerful new feature: ➡️ External Load Balancer
🧠 What is it?
The External Load Balancer lets users deploy and manage their load balancing functionality on a dedicated, private resource — typically a virtual machine or a bare-metal server with a public IP address.
It’s the equivalent of an external instance, but specifically designed for HTTP/3 load balancing.
This offers several key advantages:
✅ Better compute performance
✅ Higher bandwidth
✅ Full control over the infrastructure
🛡️ Built-in failover, multi-cloud ready
In case your dedicated load balancer becomes unavailable, LayerOps automatically triggers a fallback mechanism: A backup load balancer instance is deployed in real time on one of 8 compatible public cloud providers.
With this, you gain:
- High availability
- Redundancy across multiple providers
- Seamless user experience, even during outages
🔧 Why this matters
With this capability, LayerOps allows you to create a Distributed CaaS (Container-as-a-Service) platform that is:
💪 High-performance
🌍 Multi-provider by design
🔐 Sovereign and self-hosted
💰 Optimized for cost and control
You can leverage your own infrastructure or preferred European providers for production, and use public cloud bursting only when needed — for peak loads or failover scenarios.
🚀 Build your own cloud — on your own terms
This new feature empowers organisations to build their own cloud platform with:
Cloud-native scalability
Reduced lock-in
Enhanced resilience
Infrastructure cost savings
All while staying aligned with European digital sovereignty goals.
➡️ Learn more: https://www.layerops.io/?dev-to-lb-failover
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