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This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.
The distinction is that this project is Google written/used not google supported.
Note that this is a network-level load balancer that is tightly coupled with LVS, not a Layer 7 load balancer like HAProxy.
As much as I love Go and use it extensively for various production-grade projects, I'm wondering how suitable it really is for something like a load balancer. My understanding is that Go's TLS performance is dramatically less than other C-based implementations like OpenSSL. I remember reading something about some licensing collisions between the Go project and some TLS stuff such that optimized encryption code couldn…
the part that makes it difficult to implement is that the hosts have to be on the same network. I didn't dive too much into the code but it looks like you also assign an additional interface to use as a VIP. I believe you'll need to be in your own network and not the cloud to implement this.
Still cool nonetheless!
As much as I love Go and use it extensively for various production-grade projects, I'm wondering how suitable it really is for something like a load balancer. My understanding is that Go's TLS performance is dramatically less than other C-based implementations like OpenSSL. I remember reading something about some licensing collisions between the Go project and some TLS stuff such that optimized encryption code couldn…
This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.
I believe it means they want to share the code but not support it like an official product launch, but I don't know for sure.
LVS load-balancing is amazing. You can use a tiny instance to load balance huge amounts of traffic since the instance itself doesn't need to process and pass the traffic. the part that makes it difficult to implement is that the hosts have to be on the same network. I didn't dive too much into the code but it looks like you also assign an additional interface to use as a VIP. I believe you'll need to be in your own n…
[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
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The reason I ask, I worked with one hosting provider who leveraged LVS for well over billions of impressions per month and was rock solid for all their client base.
I'm pretty interested in this, but not yet in a position to roll out a dedicated infrastructure.
This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.
It is a load balancer Google is using in production: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-see... Edit: Here's the official Google announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalabl...