0x0F-load_balancer

Load balancer

In this project, I continued to build up the configuration of the web server issued in project 0x0B-ssh. I was issued two additional servers, one to replicate the Nginx configuration of my original server, and another to set up an HAproxy load balancer on to manage both web servers.

Tasks 📃

• 0. Double the number of webservers

  • 0-custom_http_response_header: Bash script that installs and configures Nginx on a server with a custom HTTP response header.
    • The name of the HTTP header is X-Served-By.
    • The value of the HTTP header is the hostname of the server.

• 1. Install your load balancer

  • 1-install_load_balancer: Bash script that installs and configures HAproxy version 1.5 on a server.
    • Enables management via the init script.
    • Requests are distributed using a round-robin algorithm.

• 2. Add a custom HTTP header with Puppet

• 2-puppet_custom_http_response_header.pp: Puppet file that automates the task of creating a custom HTTP header response.

• The name of the custom HTTP header must be X-Served-By

• The value of the custom HTTP header must be the hostname of the server Nginx is running on