Conditions, Actions and Routing

Routing traffic to different targets based on conditions and rolling out new versions in a controlled way.

• What is the difference between a Condition and an Action?LB-10-001
• What is Content Switching?LB-10-002
• How do I route to different servers based on the URL path (e.g. /api → API servers)?LB-10-003
• Can I route based on the Host Header?LB-10-004
• Where does traffic go if no condition matches?LB-10-005
• What is the difference between Conditional Backend Services and Default Backend Services?LB-10-006
• Can I route based on an HTTP Header, cookie or query parameter?LB-10-007
• Can I route clients to a different backend based on their country / city?LB-10-008
• Can I send mobile devices to a separate backend?LB-10-009
• Can I route based on the browser's language preference?LB-10-010
• How do I combine multiple conditions with AND / OR?LB-10-011
• Can I use a condition in negated form ("if not")?LB-10-012
• In what order do Actions run; how do I change the order?LB-10-013
• If an action blocks or redirects traffic, do the subsequent actions run?LB-10-014
• What is the difference between On Request and On Response actions?LB-10-015
• Why is my Action not triggering?LB-10-016
• Can I use the same condition in more than one vService?LB-10-017
• When I change a condition or an action, which vServices are affected?LB-10-018
• How do I do a canary or blue-green deployment?LB-10-019
• Can I route only users coming from the internal network (specific IPs) to a test server?LB-10-020
• Can I send only a certain percentage of traffic to a new version?LB-10-021
• Can I make decisions based on backend response time or response status code?LB-10-022
• What is a Smart Variable; how is it used in conditions and actions?LB-10-023
• What are Dynamic Condition and Dynamic List used for?LB-10-024
• Can I send a copy of the traffic to a test environment (Traffic Mirroring)?LB-10-025
• How do I change the evaluation order of Conditional Backend Services blocks?LB-10-026
• Can I see how many times an action has been triggered (hit counter, Action Hits)?LB-10-027
• How many Traffic Mirroring actions can I use on a vService at most?LB-10-028
• Why doesn't a Location Redirection or User Authentication (On HTTP request) action work if I add it without a condition?LB-10-029
• Can I apply different rules per destination IP on a vService published on multiple IP addresses (Destination IP)?LB-10-030
• If a vService listens on multiple ports, can I apply a different action or Backend Service per port (Destination Port)?LB-10-031
• Can I show different content or route to a different Backend Service based on the client's operating system (Operating System)?LB-10-032
• Can I act on the size of the response returned by the Backend Service (Response Size (bytes))?LB-10-033