Let’s play the cluster game

by | Feb 10, 2021 | howto

We reached the end of a three-part series on installing, configuring and handling a loadbalancer in front of two webservers. We already looked at haproxy [1], including installation and configuration, as well as the installation and configuration of a cluster based on...

Clustering made easy with pacemaker/corosync

by | Jan 27, 2021 | howto

In the first part of this series, you learned how to set up your webservers and the loadbalancer. Now, let’s move on with how to plan, build and configure a cluster with high availability. Before we can start, you have to set up one more loadbalancer, lb-2, as...

Loadbalancing made easy with haproxy

by | Jan 13, 2021 | howto

This is the start of a three-part series showing you how to install, configure and handle a loadbalancer in front of two webservers. We will also learn how to integrate a cluster taking ownership of the components running on each node. One very common scenario in a...