Load Balancing Recipe

This recipe demonstrates how you can use Nginx as a reverse proxy server and load balance between multiple Echo servers.

How to setup Nginx proxy server with Echo? 🔗

Step 1: Install Nginx 🔗

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/tutorials/install

Step 2: Configure Nginx 🔗

Create a file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/localhost with the following content:






Change listen, server_name, access_log per your need.




Step 3: Restart Nginx 🔗 


service nginx restart


Step 4: Start upstream servers 🔗 


    

  • cd upstream
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  • go run server.go server1 :8081
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  • go run server.go server2 :8082
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Step 5: Browse to https://localhost:8080 🔗 


You should see a webpage being served from “server 1” or “server 2”.


Hello from upstream server server1

Source Code


upstream/server.go