Load-balancing is the practice of distributing workloads or data between segregated services to provide improved reliability and increased performance characteristics.
Questions tagged [load-balance]
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Open Ports on Google Cloud Load Balancer
It seems that by default, Google Cloud load balancers expose a number of ports unecessarily. I haven't found a way to expose only 80/443 and every time I make one of their load balancers, the following ports are seen in an nmap:
PORT STATE …
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Load balancing Nexus artifact repository
Load balancing Nexus is currently not supported by Sonatype, except by putting a Nexus instance in front of two with smart-proxying enabled or via a newer feature.
Still, I gave it a shot, by sharing the filesystem with GlusterFS for the /storage,…
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How to prevent hug of death on EC2 Instance?
I've a iOS app on the app store and recently I've received a huge surge of traffic to my landing page hosted on EC2 and resulted in the page not responding, luckily I managed to recover it by restarting and upgrading the instance to a t2.medium.
Now…
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Does load balancer F5 support CasC (Configuration as Code)?
Using CasC with F5 would allow for versioned and optionally dynamic network endpoint configuration, saving time and reducing risks.
Does this tool support this? Are Single Configuration Files (SCF, F5 term) the vehicle to do that?
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Kubernetes deployement with minimum disruption to websocket connections
Problem statement: Make a deployment with minimum disruption to clients connected via websockets.
Stack: GKE (Regional cluster - 1.22.8-gke.200), helm, Node.js/websockets, HPA, Rolling Update.
Our Kubernetes Cluster is composed by micro-services…
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Load balancing kubernetes cluster on budget KVM provider?
There are a lot of cheap KVM providers these days that offer simple nodes with just a single external IP per node, without any load balancing.
What is a typical budget load balancing solution for this scenario?
I am planning to use either docker…
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Where to start? Scaling PHP applications on AWS
Currently all of our PHP (Laravel) applications are running on one EC2 instance. To deploy code, we SSH onto the live box and pull from CodeCommit.
We now need to scale and deploy properly.
I'm not sure where to start.
Most examples seem to use…
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Ingress vs Load Balancer
I am new to kubernetes and I am trying to expose an application publicly. I am using Scaleway as the cloud provider (if it matters).
From what I understand, there are multiple ways of doing this.
Create an Ingress Controller
By doing this, the…
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AWS: Application vs Classic Load Balancer
My senario is this:
I am using 2 EC2 instances which I want reachable via urls as follows:
sub1.domain.com
sub2.domain.com
I am aware of the fact that AWS Application Load Balancers currently support host based routing so I guess this is now…
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In what all cases would one use an external load balancer over the Ingress routing mesh in a Docker cluster?
Also, would the routing mesh act as an application load balancer?
Like for example, if I am having a Docker cluster in AWS, how does the ELB added to it, work? And how would that be different from what the internal load balancer is doing?
Or, did I…
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Load Balancing of Jenkins Nodes without Load Balancing Plugin?
we currently want to introduce a loadbalancing on the Jenkins server and our nodes. I have already created several nodes.
Currently it is also so that if a node is blocked accordingly, that the next free option is chosen. But only if a node is…
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How can I achieve better load balancing of different systems on a Jenkins?
We have four test machines spread over a Jenkins.
We would like to have a better distribution. Example: If machine one is running with a test job, the second job should detect that node one is running and directly take the next free instance to…
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How do I configure an AWS network load balancer with an A record in Cloudflare
I am trying to use an AWS Network Load Balancer to point at a group of servers. I would then like to take my DNS and point it at the load balancer. However, after I set everything up I cannot find and ip address for the AWS load balancer. I only see…
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Is it possible to set up Microsoft Sql Server in a scalable way?
I am working on some architecture where we need to have a Microsoft Sql Server database that is scalable, with one writable master and many read-only slaves. Ideally I should be able to hit a load balancer of some kind, and if it is a write, it…
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Custom Layer 4 Load Balancer
What are my best options for deploying a load balancer on AWS with the following requirments:
Add auto scaling that will start my own EC2 instances.
Deploy 3rd party SW on the load balancer.
Have a readable shared memory (can be S3).
Found…
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