# Rancher Loadbalancer for workloads best practices **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 14, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468 "2023-04-14T09:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/herman_milton_maleia/32/9633_2.png) [@Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://forums.suse.com/u/Herman_Milton_Maleia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/1 "2023-04-14T09:08:16Z")
Hi Team, I have some questions regarding loadbalancing. Everytime i create a deployment i need to specify the service type loadbalancer? I always need loadbalancer for my apps. I need to have one load balancer for each deployment? How can i reuse loadbalancer service? I´m using metallb and i have a limited range of ips. Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![gmocellin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@gmocellin](https://forums.suse.com/u/gmocellin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/2 "2023-04-14T13:46:15Z")
Hi ! What I do : - My apps are not using service with type loadbalancer - I use some Ingress for my apps - I have configured my NGinx Ingress Controler to use a service of type Loadbalancer Every Ingress share the same loadbalancer, manager by the ingress controler. But, it works only for HTTP, apps that can be handled by an Ingress… ---
**Author:** ![Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/herman_milton_maleia/32/9633_2.png) [@Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://forums.suse.com/u/Herman_Milton_Maleia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/3 "2023-04-14T14:28:55Z")
Thank you @gmocellin!!! Your apps only need to run as ClusterIp? How you will handle it to run with https? ---
**Author:** ![gmocellin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@gmocellin](https://forums.suse.com/u/gmocellin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/4 "2023-04-14T15:06:01Z")
Yes, the apps’ service does not need a specific config, ClusterIP is fine. The Ingress plays the role of reverse proxy. With Nginx Ingress controler, it’s really a virtual serveur config for the DNS name, using a certificate for that name (given at ingress creation), and proxying to the service clusterIP. ---
**Author:** ![Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/herman_milton_maleia/32/9633_2.png) [@Herman\_Milton\_Maleia](https://forums.suse.com/u/Herman_Milton_Maleia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/5 "2023-04-17T08:06:58Z")
Hi @gmocellin What if i need to have another nginx ingress controller. Is it possible? I just installed nginx and was automaticaly assigned external ip. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/6/6f202c5872a5b271fe1b2ee0e91c0f2a81829d49.png) ---
**Author:** ![gmocellin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@gmocellin](https://forums.suse.com/u/gmocellin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-loadbalancer-for-workloads-best-practices/40468/6 "2023-04-17T08:22:04Z")
I don’t see why you would need several Ingress **controller**. Only one is sufficient for several apps, each having their own Ingress (not controller).