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well either it uses DNS for failover or you have ipvs (lvs, keepalived) enabled or worse if the machine with haproxy crashes your basically dead. Of course ther
by merb 8y ago
well either it uses DNS for failover or you have ipvs (lvs, keepalived) enabled or worse if the machine with haproxy crashes your basically dead.
Of course there is also bgp and anycast, but this is not "cheap"
- takeda 8y agoThat's not how it works. It is very similar to sidecar approach which various service discovery solutions have. You have haproxy running locally on localhost and you communicate with it, the haproxy then routes the request to right nodes. No DNS, no LVS and no keepalived.
- merb 8y agowell I've talked about edge Load Balancing..