High-Availability Setup with Failover
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- Vijaykumar Rajendran
- @vijayrajendran_

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High Availability Setup
Complete HA Config
upstream backend {
least_conn;
server backend1:8080 weight=2 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
server backend2:8080 weight=2 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
server backend3:8080 weight=1 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
server backup1:8080 backup max_fails=2 fail_timeout=10s;
server backup2:8080 backup max_fails=2 fail_timeout=10s;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name example.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
location / {
proxy_pass http://backend;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_connect_timeout 5s;
proxy_read_timeout 10s;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
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