Cloudflare Load Balancer Demo

Test the Load Balancer

Hit the LB and see which origin responds:

for i in $(seq 1 10); do curl -s https://lb.christoroberts.com/?t=$RANDOM | grep -o 'Origin [0-9]' | head -1; sleep 0.3; done

Test failover (take Origin 1 offline, then hit LB):

curl -s https://lb-origin-1.laboratory.workers.dev/toggle    # take Origin 1 offline
sleep 20                               # wait for health check (15s interval)
for i in $(seq 1 5); do curl -s https://lb.christoroberts.com/?t=$RANDOM | grep -o 'Origin [0-9]' | head -1; done
curl -s https://lb-origin-1.laboratory.workers.dev/toggle    # bring it back

Health checks run every 15 seconds. After toggling, wait ~20s for the LB to detect the change.

Check pool health status:

curl -s https://lb-demo.laboratory.workers.dev/status | python3 -m json.tool

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