Basically I’m trying to implement a setup of multiple VMs which host a single website and load-balance traffic between the servers using nginx and linux. Is it possible and if so is there a tutorial?
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Hello! You can install nginx on load balancing server and set other servers as members of round-robin. Example configuration:
http {
upstream myapp1 {
server srv1.example.com;
server srv2.example.com;
server srv3.example.com;
}
server {
listen 80;
location / {
proxy_pass http://myapp1;
}
}
}
Links: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/load_balancing.html https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-load-balancing https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/round-robin-load-balancing/
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