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How to set up DHCP failover on Windows Server

Network World

For those working in Windows environments, there are currently two options for setting up redundant DHCP servers: a failover scenario with a main server paired with another in hot standby; and a load-balancing scenario in which two DHCP servers actively handle client requests. [ To read this article in full, please click here

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Using Nginx as a Load Balancer

SPF13

The following configuration demonstrates how to properly use nginx as a load balancer in front of two web servers. Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy configuration.

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How to install and setup HAProxy on Ubuntu 16.04

Tech Republic Data Center

Looking to load balance your web servers? Here's how to do it with the help of HAProxy on Ubuntu Server 16.04.

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Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on Azure with Pulumi

Scott Lowe

This post is something of a “companion post” to the earlier AWS post; in this post, I’ll show you how to create a Talos Linux cluster on Azure with Pulumi. Next, it creates a load balancer, gets a public IP address for the load balancer, and creates the associated backend address pool, health probe, and load balancing rule.

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Fine-Tuning Control Plane Access with Cluster API

Scott Lowe

When Cluster API creates a workload cluster, it also creates a load balancing solution to handle traffic to the workload cluster’s control plane. For flexibility, Cluster API provides a limited ability to customize this control plane load balancer. 0 to the control plane load balancer.

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Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on AWS with Pulumi

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’ll share how to use Pulumi to automate the creation of a Talos Linux cluster on AWS. This includes a VPC (and all the assorted other pieces, like subnets, gateways, routes, and route tables) and a load balancer. The Talos web site describes Talos Linux as “secure, immutable, and minimal.”

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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