Load Balancing

This recipe demonstrates how you can use Nginx as a reverse proxy server and load balance between multiple Echo servers.

Echo

cookbook/load-balancing/upstream/server.go

  1. loading...

Start servers

  • cd upstream
  • go run server.go server1 :8081
  • go run server.go server2 :8082

Nginx

1) Install Nginx

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/tutorials/install

2) Configure Nginx

Create a file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/localhost with the following content:

  1. https://github.com/labstack/echox/blob/master/cookbook/load-balancing/nginx.conf

::: info

Change listen, server_name, access_log per your need.

:::

3) Restart Nginx

  1. service nginx restart

Browse to https://localhost:8080, and you should see a webpage being served from either “server 1” or “server 2”.

  1. Hello from upstream server server1