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Use the load balancing power of Endpoint Pools for canary deploys and beyond

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Joel Hans
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1,038
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English
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Summary

Endpoint Pools provide a streamlined approach to load balancing between multiple service replicas, offering flexibility and enhanced management capabilities for cloud endpoints by integrating with ngrok. The "front door" pattern allows users to forward traffic from a public URL to internal agent endpoints, enabling the application of unified security policies and traffic rules across services. By employing canary testing, users can safely experiment with gateway configuration changes and deploy new versions of APIs or applications, minimizing risk and ensuring smoother transitions. The system's efficiency is enhanced by pooling-enabled flags, which facilitate seamless migration from agent to cloud endpoints without significant downtime. Additionally, the platform supports the deployment of canary versions of services, allowing for gradual rollouts and easy reversions in case of issues, thus improving the reliability of deployments. Users are encouraged to explore and share their experiences with Endpoint Pools to further refine and optimize the tool's capabilities.

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