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What Is a Load Balancer? Definition, Working, Benefits, and Drawbacks

IT Toolbox

Load balancers distribute traffic over server farms to optimize performance by following load-balancing algorithms. The post What Is a Load Balancer? Definition, Working, Benefits, and Drawbacks appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Kubernetes Port Names and Terminating HTTPS Traffic on AWS

Scott Lowe

I recently came across something that wasn’t immediately intuitive with regard to terminating HTTPS traffic on an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) when using Kubernetes on AWS. aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol : http. aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert : arn:aws:acm:{region}:{user id}:certificate/{id}.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

With Fargate, you don't need to stand up a control plane, choose the right instance type, or configure all the other components of your application stack like networking, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, security groups, permissions, or secrets management. Getting Started.

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Consuming Pre-Existing AWS Infrastructure with Cluster API

Scott Lowe

In the case of AWS, this includes VPCs, subnets, route tables, Internet gateways, NAT gateways, Elastic IPs, security groups, load balancers, and (of course) EC2 instances. The key here is the networkSpec object in a Cluster definition. But what if you didn’t want CAPA to create AWS infrastructure?

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

I’ll get to the definition of SDN in just a moment, but first let’s look at the definition of network virtualization. ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate. .” ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate.

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The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Certification

Linux Academy

If you take it twice because you failed the first time, you’ll pay $200 in total — so it definitely pays off to be prepared and not to have to take the exam multiple times. Load Balancers, Auto Scaling. Knowing where to start studying can definitely be overwhelming, but we’ve got you covered. 90 minutes.

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