text: **Load balancers**
  This guide uses an external load balancer that is running HAproxy to offer a single entry point 
  for the many Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform components. Organizations can provide 
  their own deployed load balancers if the service exists. 
  
  The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console, which is provided by the Red Hat 
  OpenShift Container Platform master nodes, can be spread across multiple instances to 
  provide load balancing and HA properties. 
  
  Application traffic passes through the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Router on its 
  way to the container processes. The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Router is a 
  reverse proxy service container that multiplexes the traffic to multiple containers that make up 
  a scaled application that is running inside Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The load 
  balancer that is used by infrastructure nodes acts as the public view for the Red Hat 
  OpenShift Container Platform applications. 
  
  The destination for the master and application traffic must be set in the load balancer 
  configuration after each instance is created, the floating IP address is assigned, and before 
  the installation. A single HAproxy Load Balancer can forward both sets of traffic to different 
  destinations. 