Load balance dynamic target ports

Rancher 1.x
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In Rancher it’s possible to assign a random port to a service, which is great - I can run multiple services on my one dev host and that works fine. But how do I add a load balancer that knows about those random ports? The UI asks for a specific port, but it feels like Rancher should already know enough about what ports are being used to just pick them itself.

Thanks
Alice

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Load balancers talk to the target containers over the overlay network and use the actual port the container is listening on/exposing. You do not need to publish any ports on the target service, random or otherwise.

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