Chapter 5. Load Balancing
In this chapter, you will learn how to load balance requests to EAP 7 servers from a web frontend layer. We can achieve load balancing using a variety of tools; we will however focus on the EAP HTTP balancing solution named mod_cluster
. Overall in this chapter we will cover the following topics:
- At first, we will introduce and discuss
mod_cluster
communication, which can be carried out natively by Undertow or with the mediation of the Apache web server - Next we will cover some other legacy solutions that can be installed on Apache or on third-party products (nginx)