On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:53:24PM +0100, Malcolm Turnbull wrote: > Daniel, > > All load balancers work in roughly the same way: > > You have a Virtual IP on the load balancer that the clients talk to, > and the load balancer is configured to talk to multiple Real > IPs/Backend Servers. > Your old config probably had one VIP for HTTP and one for HTTPS. > > HAProxy is very easy but you will need to read the manual or one of > the many blogs talking about how to use it. > Once you have studied / installed / configured / tested / understood - > then if necessary come back to the list for help.
Yep that's the idea. I could suggest that you take a look at the architecture manual in doc/. It's quite old (2006) but will give you some quick hints as to the config you need for various use cases. You may recognize some elements that your old setup was doing and this will help you start with a simple but working config. Willy
