LoadMaster

A load balancer to help speed up applications and ensure their fault tolerance.

About Progress LoadMaster

Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® is a high-performance application delivery controller (ADC) and load balancer that provides availability, scalability, performance, and security for customers’ business-critical applications and websites. LoadMaster load balancers offer a high-performance application delivery solution with SSL offload, content switching, URL rewriting, and compression, on a more secure, highly available platform that is easily deployed and managed.

Progress LoadMaster Features

Application Availability

LoadMaster provides optimized application delivery and advanced load balancing, enabling high availability without compromising security or performance for applications hosted in the cloud or on-premises.

Object Storage Optimization

LoadMaster’s intuitive health checks create efficient request handles to maintain an always-available storage solution.

Always-On VPN

LoadMaster makes VPN servers highly available to reduce points of failure in an Always-On VPN architecture. The solution can be configured to accept inbound VPN connections and intelligently distribute them to all configured real servers.

Certificate Lifecycle Management

LoadMaster 360 provides operations and security teams with a single control point for certificate management across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Global Server Load Balancing

GSLB in Progress LoadMaster enables multi-data resilience, helping optimize and protect application infrastructure.

Zero Trust Network Access

LoadMaster ZTNA, combined with IAM and contextual traffic steering, works towards protecting proxied applications.

SSL/TLS Management

Enables offloading encryption overhead to simplify compliance and certificate lifecycle management, providing additional protection with authentication, a web app firewall, and cryptographic processors to accelerate SSL processing

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

The LoadMaster WAF allows organizations to create security profiles to reinforce source location-level filtering, adopt pre-integrated rule sets for common attack vectors, and apply custom security rule support.

Pre-Authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO)

LoadMaster enables centralized security and authentication management to monitor, identify, and remediate issues. It supports all major identity providers, including Active Directory (AD), LDAP, RADIUS, and OIDC/OAuth. It also supports client authentication using two-factor tokens and digital certificates.

Multi-Cloud Auth with Azure AD

Leverages Azure AD and SSO across clouds and legacy applications. This Secure Hybrid Access (SHA) solution uses LoadMaster Edge Security Pack (ESP with SAML) to authenticate Azure AD users’ accounts.

Kubernetes Ingress Controller

The LoadMaster Ingress Controller provides a simple mechanism to automate endpoint configuration by routing external traffic to your Kubernetes microservices and monolithic applications from a single device.

API Gateway

API Gateway is a management tool that receives calls and routes them to the appropriate destination. LoadMaster enables the successful delivery of business-critical APIs, ensuring they are secure, highly available, and easy to manage.

Progress LoadMaster Benefits

  • Optimized application performance

    Progress Kemp LoadMaster ensures critical applications remain accessible by employing advanced load-balancing techniques. This guarantees minimal downtime and optimal performance, even during peak demand or unexpected server failures.

  • Enhanced application security

    With integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) and SSL offloading, LoadMaster provides robust protection against cyber threats. These features help secure applications by mitigating vulnerabilities and reducing the burden of encryption on servers.

  • Flexible deployment options

    LoadMaster adapts seamlessly to diverse IT environments, including virtual, hardware, and cloud platforms. Its deployment flexibility ensures compatibility with existing infrastructure and evolving needs.

  • Centralized management

    Through the LoadMaster 360 platform, administrators can efficiently manage certificates, configurations, and policies. This centralized approach simplifies operations and improves control over application delivery.

  • Support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments

    LoadMaster supports hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, offering scalability and resilience. It enables organizations to maintain application performance and reliability across distributed environments.

Related Resources

1. Kemp LeadMaster Overview

Get a brief overview of Progress Kemp LoadMaster’s capabilities.

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2. LoadMaster 360 Overview Brochure

Find out what you can do with LoadMaster 360.

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