# Load balancing with failover (/networking--load-balancer)

/networking--load-balancer is a Claude Code skill in the Code section. Designs your app's load balancing setup, with origin pools, health checks and failover, as Cloudflare, Nginx or Kubernetes configuration.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/networking--load-balancer
- Section: [Code](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/code.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/networking/load-balancer.md
- Updated 2 Apr 2026

## How to ask for it

- `/networking--load-balancer split traffic between two backend servers`
- `/networking--load-balancer add a health check with automatic failover`
- `/networking--load-balancer set up load balancing for my API`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install networking-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `**/*`
- Writes: `**/*`
- Runs: `curl`
- Network: Yes
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Configure load balancing with health checks and failover policies

- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)