title: Load Balancer -> Examples

## Examples

* [Create a Load Balancer with two members and wait for it to become ready](#example-1-create-lb-and-wait-for-ready)

<h3 id="example-1-create-lb-and-wait-for-ready">Create a Load Balancer with two members and
wait for it to become ready</h3>

    ::python
    import time
    from pprint import pprint

    from libcloud.loadbalancer.base import Member, Algorithm
    from libcloud.loadbalancer.types import State, Provider
    from libcloud.loadbalancer.providers import get_driver


    driver = get_driver(Provider.RACKSPACE_US)('username', 'api key')

    name = 'test-lb'
    members = (Member(None, '192.168.86.1', 8080),
               Member(None, '192.168.86.2', 8080))

    print 'Creating load balancer'
    new_balancer = driver.create_balancer(name=name,
                                          algorithm=Algorithm.ROUND_ROBIN,
                                          port=80, protocol='http',
                                          members=members)

    print 'Waiting for load balancer to become ready...'
    while True:
        balancer = driver.get_balancer(balancer_id=new_balancer.id)

        if balancer.state == State.RUNNING:
            break

        print 'Load balancer not ready yet, sleeping 20 seconds...'
        time.sleep(20)

    print 'Load balancer is ready'
    pprint(balancer)

    # fetch list of members
    members = balancer.list_members()
    pprint(members)