# Basic Workflow

The basic workflow of elastic load balancers contains the following: creating a load balancer, adding a listener to a specified load balancer, adding a backend server group to a specified listener, configuring a health check for a specified backend server group, and adding a backend server to a specified backend server group. Deletion operations include removing a backend server, deleting a health check, deleting a backend server group, deleting a listener, and deleting a load balancer.

#### Provision Resources

- Creating a load balancer
- Adding a listener to a specified load balancer
- Adding a backend server group to a specified listener
- Configuring a health check for a specified backend server group
- Adding a backend server to a specified backend server group

#### Reclaim Resources

- Removing a backend server
- Deleting a health check
- Deleting a backend server group
- Deleting a listener
- Deleting a load balancer

Parent topic: General Information About Shared Load Balancers