Deploying NGINX Plus for High Availability with Chef
Deploying NGINX Plus for High Availability with Chef In a previous blog post, we went over how to deploy NGINX Plus using Chef. In this blog post we will build on the Chef configs from the last blog post and use Chef to deploy a highly available (HA) NGINX Plus active/passive cluster. This post assumes that you have already run through the previous post and have a working Chef installation. If not, please review at least the first two sections in the previous post, Preparing Your Chef Environment and Downloading and Configuring the NGINX Cookbook. To set up the HA active/passive cluster, we’re using the HA solution provided by NGINX, Inc., which is based on keepalived and the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). The solution comes with an interactive script for creating the keepalived configuration file, but here we’re using [ more… ]
