In this chapter, you will learn how to load balance requests to EAP 7 servers from a web frontend layer. We can achieve load balancing using a variety of tools; we will however focus on the EAP HTTP balancing solution named mod_cluster
. Overall in this chapter we will cover the following topics:
At first, we will introduce and discuss
mod_cluster
communication, which can be carried out natively by Undertow or with the mediation of the Apache web serverNext we will cover some other legacy solutions that can be installed on Apache or on third-party products (nginx)