---
name: "eulb-create-lb-cookie-stickiness-policy"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "euca2ools"
version: "3.3.1-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/eulb-create-lb-cookie-stickiness-policy"
---

# eulb-create-lb-cookie-stickiness-policy(1)

Create a new stickiness policy for a load balancer, whereby the load balancer automatically generates cookies that it uses to route requests from each user to the same back end instance. This type of policy can only be associated with HTTP or HTTPS listeners.

## NAME

eulb-create-lb-cookie-stickiness-policy - Create a new stickiness policy for a load balancer, whereby the load balancer automatically generates cookies that it uses to route requests from each user to the same back end instance.  This type of policy can only be associated with HTTP or HTTPS listeners.

## SYNOPSIS

eulb-create-lb-cookie-stickiness-policy **-e** SECONDS **-p** POLICY \[-U URL\]

- \[--region USER@REGION\]

  \[-I KEY\_ID\] \[-S KEY\] \[--security-token TOKEN\] \[--debug\] \[--debugger\] \[--version\] \[-h\] ELB

## DESCRIPTION

Create a new stickiness policy for a load balancer, whereby the load balancer automatically generates cookies that it uses to route requests from each user to the same back end instance.  This type of policy can only be associated with HTTP or HTTPS listeners.

### positional arguments:

- ELB

  name of the load balancer to modify (required)

### optional arguments:

- **-e** SECONDS, **--expiration-period** SECONDS

  time period after which cookies should be considered stale (default: user's session length) (required)

- **-p** POLICY, **--policy-name** POLICY

  name of the new policy (required)

- **-U** URL, **--url** URL

  load balancing service endpoint URL

- **--region** USER@REGION

  region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

**-I** KEY\_ID, **--access-key-id** KEY\_ID

**-S** KEY, **--secret-key** KEY

**--security-token** TOKEN

- **--debug**

  show debugging output

- **--debugger**

  launch interactive debugger on error

- **--version**

  show the program's version and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit