[grpc-io] Re: How to configure nginx to serve as a load balancer for gRPC?

Announced 17-Mar-2018: native support for gRPC traffic in NGINX 1.13.10 : https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-13-10-grpc/ On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 12:54:08 PM UTC-5, alexm...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I understand that the question is more appropriate for nginx group, but > still... Does

Re: [grpc-io] Re: How to configure nginx to serve as a load balancer for gRPC?

Thank you both for your replies. I already tried both nghttp2 and envoy w/o success. I decided to wait a bit, because https://grpc.io/blog/loadbalancing says "Nginx coming soon". On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 11:34:18 AM UTC-4, Josh Humphries wrote: > > You could use nginx as a TCP load

Re: [grpc-io] Re: How to configure nginx to serve as a load balancer for gRPC?

You could use nginx as a TCP load balancer (layer 4), instead of HTTP (layer 7). However, the actual load balancing performance will likely be much worse, especially if clients are using long-lived persistent connections without any sort of client-side load balancing logic (like opening multiple