Load Balancing a Dynamic Infrastructure with NGINX, Chef, and Consul
Load Balancing a Dynamic Infrastructure with NGINX, Chef, and Consul td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a presentation by Kevin Reedy of Belly Card at nginx.conf in October 2014. While that was a couple years ago, the content is still highly relevant today. You can view a recording of the presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction Overview Disclaimer 1:16 What is Belly? Belly’s Stack 1:44 Version 0: The Dark Age 2:04 Version 1: A New Hope 2:35 Version 2: Separate Home Page and API Buzzword of the Day: Service-Oriented Architecture! Enable SOA NGINX Replaces ELB Upstream and Virtual Server Configuration Results 4:43 Configuration With Chef Recipes Files Templates Cookbooks 6:49 Example: Chef for NGINX Installation, Configuration, and Tuning Routing API Traffic 9:46 Real-World [ more… ]
