I got a 502 when visiting this url, I think it's just irony bmiling at me: http://i.imgur.com/q3n8PpZ.png
Same here... heh heh heh
Not sure what's so ironic about this. That's the Mercurial server that's not responding.
NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
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Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#12Can someone explain how this is superior to HAproxy?
from what i understand, this could be used for anything tcp related (here[0] they said it could be used to proxy mysql, ldap, rtmp and they use pop3 as an example).
i thought haproxy was used basically to proxy http stuff, not general tcp.
[0] http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#13The NGINX Plus docs on TCP Load Balancing: http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
Something to read while we wait for the announcement page to come back up :-)
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#14Many installations would go from haproxy->nginx to nginx->nginx. Having to support a single product will make many devops happy.
In the same tense, haproxy is adding Lua support[1], which has been available in nginx - using openresty[2] - since 2011, and nginx core is doing the same with Javascript[2].
Interesting times aroung haproxy and nginx.
[1] http://blog.haproxy.com/2015/03/12/haproxy-1-6-dev1-and-lua/
[3] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838008/javascript/nginx-ha...
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
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#16Does that mean that I can now put NGINX in front of a cluster of TCP (non HTTP) servers and get NGINX to cleverly load balance the incoming requests to the individual nodes ?
That's correct. It's configured in much the same way as HTTP proxying, with a few different load balancing methods (least connections, consistent hashing).
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#17Can someone explain how this is superior to HAproxy?
from what i understand, this could be used for anything tcp related (here[0] they said it could be used to proxy mysql, ldap, rtmp and they use pop3 as an example). i thought haproxy was used basically to proxy http stuff, not general tcp. [0] http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
You can do tcp loadbalancing with haproxy, you can't do udp though.
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#18Can someone explain how this is superior to HAproxy?
from what i understand, this could be used for anything tcp related (here[0] they said it could be used to proxy mysql, ldap, rtmp and they use pop3 as an example). i thought haproxy was used basically to proxy http stuff, not general tcp. [0] http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
HAProxy is used for TCP too. The main benefit from my perspective is that there is one less component in the stack. Whereas I would previously need HAProxy running alongside NGINX to balance TCP and HTTP, I can now do all of this with NGINX.
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
from what i understand, this could be used for anything tcp related (here[0] they said it could be used to proxy mysql, ldap, rtmp and they use pop3 as an example). i thought haproxy was used basically to proxy http stuff, not general tcp. [0] http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/
HAProxy is used for TCP too. The main benefit from my perspective is that there is one less component in the stack. Whereas I would previously need HAProxy running alongside NGINX to balance TCP and HTTP, I can now do all of this with NGINX.
But why not just use HAProxy? It is often used for plain TCP load balancing (we use it).
Re: NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
#20The blog post tells more and has some nice diagrams: http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r6-released/