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JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By : Weinan Li
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JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By: Weinan Li

Overview of this book

High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation which ensures that a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period. High availability is usually a system combined with many different components that achieve different goals. High availability cluster implementations attempt to build redundancy into a cluster to eliminate single points of failure. JBoss EAP6 High Availability is the perfect guide for learning how to apply the newest technologies provided by JBoss to build your high availability system. With a clear explanation of the design of JBoss EAP6 and its clustering components, this book will help you customize each component to fulfill your specific requirements. Throughout the course of this book, you will learn how to build high availability clusters using the projects provided by JBoss. The book begins with an introduction to the design of JBoss EAP6 and its uses. The next step will be to explore the two companion open source projects - mod_jk and mod_cluster. In this section, you will get to grips with the concept of load balancing with mod_jk and mod_cluster. You will also learn how to enable SSL in the clustering environment and how to configure session replication between EAP6 servers. Furthermore, the appendix section introduces you to some troubleshooting techniques for Wildfly.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JBoss EAP6 High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The design of mod_cluster


As we have seen in the last chapter, JK uses the AJP13 protocol between the load balancer and worker nodes. In comparison to JK, mod_cluster allows us to secure its communication channels.

In design, mod_cluster uses three channels for communication: the advertising channel, the management channel, and the proxy channel. mod_cluster allows us to secure the communication in the management and proxy channels.

The following is the deployment diagram:

As we can see from the preceding diagram, SSL communications can be enabled in the following three places:

  • Communication between users and httpd

  • The mod_cluster management channel communication between httpd and EAP6

  • The mod_cluster proxy channel communication between httpd and EAP6

We learned how to enable SSL communication between users and httpd in the previous chapter. We need to generate a self-signed certificate and configure mod_ssl in httpd to use the certificate. The following is the configuration that we used in the...