Building a High Availability Cluster with HAProxy and Keepalived
Setting up a highly available load balancing cluster requires two primary components: HAProxy for traffic distribution and Keepalived for failover management. This setup uses two virtual machines running CentOS 7.Environment PreparationInstall the EPEL repository and required packages on both nodes:yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y hap ...
Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:14:40 +0000 by xenoalien
Elasticsearch Distributed Architecture: Sharding, Routing, and Split-Brain Mitigation
Distributed Systems vs. ClusteringArchitecture TypeAnalogyPrimary BenefitClusterMultiple workers performing identical tasksSystem high availability and load distributionDistributedMultiple workers performing distinct specialized tasksCompute/storage scaling, decoupling, performance accelerationElasticsearch inherently abstracts the complexities ...
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:07:12 +0000 by newburcj