# Load balancer for Ansible tower instances

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-balancer-for-ansible-tower-instances/30223>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-balancer-for-ansible-tower-instances/30223 "2019-04-30T13:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pushparaj\_Gothandam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/pushparaj_gothandam/32/5538_2.png) [@Pushparaj\_Gothandam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pushparaj_Gothandam)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-balancer-for-ansible-tower-instances/30223/1 "2019-04-30T13:28:24Z")

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Hi Team,

Can anyone explain why we need to setup http load balancers in front of tower instances ?

I understand Tower has already RabbitMQ setup which will share job loads between Tower instances also New Tower has instance groups model.

thanks,

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Lozada_De_L)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-balancer-for-ansible-tower-instances/30223/2 "2019-04-30T13:38:28Z")

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You don’t really have too but, this docs can give more information on the usage.

[https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3110791](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3110791)

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/3.4.3/html/administration/proxy-support.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/3.4.3/html/administration/proxy-support.html)