Load Balancing

What is High Availability? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is High Availability?

While handling increased system load is a common concern, decreasing downtime and eliminating single points of failure are just as important. High availability is a quality of infrastructure design at scale that addresses these latter considerations. In this guide, we will discuss what exactly high availability means and how it can improve your infrastructure’s reliability.

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How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.

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How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04 — Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial will show you how to create a High Availability HAProxy load balancer setup on the cloud provider, with the support of a Floating IP and the Corosync/Pacemaker cluster stack. The HAProxy load balancers will each be configured to split traffic between two backend application servers. If the primary load balancer goes down, the Floating IP will be moved to the secondary load balancer automatically, allowing service to resume.

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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