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Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by indale » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

This looks pretty sweet. The next big thing for api versioning would be header instead of url based routing, looking forward to 'give you access to other routing methods'.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by ihsw » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

Can we agree on the terminology for Application Load Balancer and Elastic Load Balancer?

* ALB: Application Load Balancer

* ELB: Elastic Load Balancer

I have seen Application Elastic Load Balancer/AELB, Classic Load Balancer/CLB, Elastic Load Balancer (Classic)/ELBC, Elastic Load Balancer (Application)/ELBA.

In any event, I think it is great that AWS is bringing WebSockets and HTTP/2 to the forefront of web technology.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by pat2man » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #16

Do ALBs support more than a single SSL certificate?

Like via SNI? No mention of it and the screenshots make it seem unlikely.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #6

So what would be a use case for using ELBs now? Seems like ALBs do everything ELBs do, but with websocket and HTTP/2 support.

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Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by caleblloyd » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

kronin wrote: post #11

nodesocket wrote: post #6

So what would be a use case for using ELBs now? Seems like ALBs do everything ELBs do, but with websocket and HTTP/2 support.

If your security requirements are such that AWS can't terminate TLS would be one reason.

Also if you're load balancing any other application protocol other than HTTP/HTTPS. (e.g. SMTP load balancer)

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by Thaxll » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:49 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #6

So what would be a use case for using ELBs now? Seems like ALBs do everything ELBs do, but with websocket and HTTP/2 support.

Pricing is different.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by dbarlett » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:50 PM UTC

notwedtm wrote: post #7

0xmohit wrote: post #4

AWS still doesn't support IPv6. Good to see them talking about HTTP/2. Waiting for AWS to embrace IPv6.

I thought that Classic LB's gave you an AAAA endpoint? Am I mistaken?

They do, but it doesn't work if the ELB is in a VPC.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by nailer » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:51 PM UTC

Nice haproxy / nginx alternative. It's got http2 support though which puts it ahead of haproxy.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by leetrout » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:51 PM UTC

kookster wrote: post #17

As a heavy ECS user, all I can say is thank you, finally!

What are you using for configuration / orchestration of both the container servers and the tasks? CF? Terraform?

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by bpicolo » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 3:58 PM UTC

archgrove wrote: post #9

Any love for Elastic Beanstalk with these? They seem well matched. Though EB always feels a bit of a red-headed stepchild in the AWS portfolio.

I love elastic beanstalk (minus it's mediocre docs). Agreed here, does elastic beanstalk support setup of new-style elbs (without me doing extensive customization)? When will it if not?