ClusterWare User Guide
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    • 🔭Overview
    • 1️⃣Create a distributed NodeJS application in 10 minutes
      • Step 1: Create a new cluster
      • Step 2: Onboard servers to ClusterWare
      • Step 3: Install server software
      • Step 4: Create application instances
      • Step 5: Import application source code
      • Step 6: Start the application
      • Step 7: Create and start application load balancer
    • 2️⃣Uniformly secure access to your infrastructure
      • Step 1: Create Security Policy
      • Step 2: Install Firewall
      • Step 3: Apply Security Policies
    • 3️⃣Secure the data in-transit with SSL
      • Step 1: Gateway Security
      • Step 2: Endpoints Security
    • 4️⃣Eliminate a single point of failure in 10 minutes
      • Step 1: Onboard a new server
      • Step 2: Install Niginx
      • Step 3: Configure DNS
      • Step 4: Create and start the failover load balancer
      • Step 5: Run a load balancer outage experiment
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        • Enabling Non-Root Firewall Status Checking
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      • Create/Edit Application
      • Status
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      • Create/Edit Load Balancer
      • Status
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      • Endpoint Security
    • Security Policies
      • Create/Edit Security Policy
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  2. Load Balancing

Create/Edit Load Balancer

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Last updated 10 months ago

Overview

To create a new Load Balancer you need to onboard a Server first on which the Load Balancer will be hosted.

Key Sections

Name

The user-defined name for the load balancer. You can choose to click on the dice button on the right to choose a random name.

Host server

Select the server from the dropdown that will host this load balancer.

Server Readiness Check

ClusterWare displays information about server readiness next to the host server dropdown. The server is ready to host the load balancer if

Hostname / Port / Location

ClusterWare populates the hostname field automatically with the server's hostname that hosts the load balancer.

For example the Load Balancer URL with the following settings will be set as http://load-balancer.demo.clusterware.io:80/api

Application Endpoints

External Endpoints

The external endpoint may have the following formats:

  • Hostname

  • Hostname + Port Number

  • IP Address

  • IP Address + Port Number

This option can not be changed for existing load balancers. To move a load balancer to another server simply the old load balancer and create a new one on a different server.

The server has insights synced

The server has any version of

In this section you can specify the exact URL on which the load balancer will be listening to incoming requests from the Internet. The protocol part (HTTP or HTTPS) is automatically determined based on option.

In this section you can select applications created in ClusterWare that are going to serve traffic behind this load balancer. Read more about displayed next to individual application instances.

In this section you can provide a lists of external endpoints that are going to serve traffic behind this load balancer. You can use this option to distribute the traffic to applications running outside of ClusterWare. Read more about displayed next to the text field.

SSL for Gateway
Nginx installed
terminate
application endpoint status
external endpoint status
CPU & Memory