Posts

Configure Load Balancer and multiple dynamic web servers using Ansible

Image
Hi all, in this blog post we are going to see one more use case of ansible to configure a load balancer and multiple web servers dynamically using AWS EC2 instances. So before we start our practical, let's understand some technical terms first. Load Balancer:- It is a server running to distribute or pass the client requests/load to all the available web servers so that there is lagging or downfall of services.  AWS EC2:- I t is a service provided by Amazon Web Services to dynamically create virtual machines/OS with desired hardware, networking, security and other configurations.  Ansible:- It is a configuration management tool used to configure almost all devices and softwares in any kind of environment, may it be UNIX, LINUX, Windows, cloud, containers, network devices etc. Ansible is built on top of Python and is an agent-less tool running on Control Node facilitating configurations on Managed Nodes.  Web Server:- I t is a kind of server where we usually run our web...