July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
The load balancer should be smart enough to understand the changes in the deployment topology and respond accordingly. This moves away from the traditional approach of configuring static IP addresses, domain aliases, or cluster addresses in the load balancer. When new servers are added to the environment, it should automatically detect this and include them in the logical cluster by avoiding any manual interactions. Similarly, if the service instance is unavailable, it should take it out from the load balancer.
A combination of Ribbon, Eureka, and Zuul provide this capability in Spring Cloud Netflix. Alternately, container orchestration tools have an out-of-the-box capability to do load balancers. DCOS has ...
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