Load Balancing

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Configure Health Checks for NodeBalancers to Remove Non-Working Back Ends

Health checks are a key part of ensuring maximum availability for cloud-based applications. NodeBalancers offer flexible choices in both passive and active health checks, and they can automatically take unreachable servers offline while using TCP and HTTP/S parameters, guaranteeing clients always get the content they request.

Application (HTTP) vs Network (TCP) Load Balancers

Load balancing is the process of distributing client requests across multiple servers. Originally, load balancers were dedicated hardware appliances connected to physical servers in data centers.

Load Balancing Fundamentals: How Load Balancers Work

When dealing with an overloaded server, you have a few choices: go bigger or share the load.

Using HAProxy for Load Balancing

What is HAProxy?HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a TCP/HTTP load balancer and proxy server that allows a webserver to spread incoming requests across multiple endpoints.

Use NGINX as a Front-end Proxy and Software Load Balancer

The NGINX web server can act as a very capable software load balancer, in addition to its more traditional roles serving static content over HTTP and dynamic content using FastCGI handlers for scripts.

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