More Fun with NGINX Plus Health Checks and Docker Containers
More Fun with NGINX Plus Health Checks and Docker Containers At nginx.conf 2017, I gave a presentation on this topic, which you can access as a YouTube video or a blog post, which includes the Powerpoint slides and a transcription of my talk. In this blog post, I’ll describe an improved version of the basic approach, then give specific, working configuration code you can use to implement it yourself. Introduction When running containers in a microservices environment, your service instances may be susceptible to becoming overloaded due to resource limitations, such as memory or CPU utilization. A number of strategies can be employed to address this issue; this blog post addresses using NGINX Plus active health checks as one strategy. We’ll focus on three different use cases: Request-count-based. Use this method when requests to a service are so heavyweight that [ more… ]
