Using nginx as HTTP load balancer
Using nginx as HTTP load balancer
- Load balancing methods
- Default load balancing configuration
- Least connected load balancing
- Session persistence
- Weighted load balancing
- Health checks
- Further reading
Introduction
Load balancing across multiple application instances is a commonly used technique for optimizing resource utilization, maximizing throughput, reducing latency, and ensuring fault-tolerant configurations.
It is possible to use nginx as a very efficient HTTP load balancer to distribute traffic to several applicatio