Load-balancing Docker Containers with Nginx and Consul-Template
Load-balancing Docker containers with Nginx and Consul-Template October 30, […]
Load-balancing Docker Containers with Nginx and Consul-Template launched on October 30, 2014 with 11 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
In plain words
This project demonstrates using Nginx and Consul-Template to dynamically load-balance traffic to Docker containers. It is intended for infrastructure teams managing containerized applications who need to automatically route web traffic based on service discovery data. The solution replaces an earlier consul-haproxy approach, allowing Nginx load balancers to reconfigure in real-time as Docker containers start and stop within infrastructure environments.
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From the sources
We are investing a lot of research and development time into leveraging Docker in the next generation of our internal infrastructure. One of the next components we need to build out to full maturity is being able to dynamically route web traffic from our Nginx load balancers to internal Docker containers in a performant way. We are very passionate fans of the work of HashiCorp at Belly, and they recently published a new project named Consul Template . We were using an earlier HashiCorp tool named consul–haproxy to reconfigure our Nginx load–balancers based on Consul data. Consul Template is a slightly more generalized tool that was fairly smooth to adopt. Let me walk you through…from tech.bellycard.com
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