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NGINX Cookbook

You're reading from   NGINX Cookbook Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466174
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Butler Tim Butler
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Common PHP Scenarios 3. Common Frameworks 4. All About SSLs 5. Logging 6. Rewrites 7. Reverse Proxy 8. Load Balancing 9. Advanced Features 10. Docker Containers 11. Performance Tuning 12. OpenResty 13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

TCP / application load balancing

While most people know NGINX for its outstanding role as a web and proxy server, most won't have used it beyond the standard web roles. Some of the key functionalities come from the fact that NGINX is incredibly flexible in how it operates. With the introduction of the stream module in 1.9, NGINX can also load balance TCP and UDP applications as well.

This opens up the possibility to load balance applications which don't have either any internal task distribution or any ability to scale beyond one server.

How to do it...

To use TCP load balancing, we first need to double-check whether the NGINX version has the stream module compiled. To do this, you can run the following command:

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