FEEDBACK CONTROL BASED LOAD BALANCING FOR CONTAINERIZED WORKLOADS

System and methods are described for performing load balancing by continually collecting real-time metrics values from a plurality of endpoints in a cloud computing system, the real-time metrics values representing current performance measurements of processing by the endpoints, and using the collected real-time metrics values by a controller to continually determine a current weight value for each endpoint, the current weight value representing a probability that the endpoint will be selected to process a user request. The method includes receiving the user request for the cloud computing system to perform requested processing; selecting an endpoint of the cloud computing system to process the user request based at least in part on the current weight values of the endpoints; and sending the user request to the selected endpoint.