Chapter 10: Load Balancer Services for Linux
In this chapter, we'll be discussing the load balancer services that are available for Linux, specifically HAProxy. Load balancers allow client workloads to be spread across multiple backend servers. This allows a single IP to scale larger than a single server may allow, and also allows for redundancy in the case of a server outage or maintenance window.
Once you've completed these examples, you should have the skills to deploy Linux-based load balancer services in your own environment via several different methods.
In particular, we'll cover the following topics:
- Introduction to load balancing
- Load balancing algorithms
- Server and service health checks
- Datacenter load balancer design considerations
- Building a HAProxy NAT/proxy load balancer
- A final note on load balancer security
Because of the complexity of setting up the infrastructure for this section, there are a few choices...
