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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 ...

Components of a Small-Medium Scale Website Architecture Customers/Users Visitors accessing the website Security Guard - Firewall (firewalld) Implements access control policies Receptionist - Load Balancer (nginx) Schedules and distributes incoming user requests Waiter - Web Server (nginx) Processes user requests Chef - Database Server ...

In a test environment using Ubuntu 18.04 with Keepalived v1.3.9 (installed via apt-get) in a Master-Backup configuration alongside Nginx, an unexpected loss of the Virtual IP (VIP) on the Master node was observed. The service became unreachable, yet no failover occurred—both nodes showed no Keepalived transition logs. Restarting Keepalived on t ...

This guide outlines the implementation of a highly available MySQL dual-master replication cluster protected by Keepalived for automatic VIP failover. The setup ensures continuous database service despite node failures. Prerequisites Two Linux servers: 192.168.199.49 (Node A) and 192.168.199.50 (Node B) Shared virtual IP (VIP): 192.168.199.52 ...

Starting the Service and Enabling Auto-Start On lb01: [root@lb01 nginx]# systemctl start keepalived.service [root@lb01 nginx]# systemctl enable keepalived.service On lb02: [root@lb02 ~]# systemctl start keepalived.service [root@lb02 ~]# systemctl enable keepalived.service Packet Capture Analysis with Wireshark Once the service is running, cap ...

Keepalived Fundamentals Keepalived is an open-source software solution designed to monitor server health and manage failover scenarios. When a web node encounters downtime or errors, Keepalived automatically removes the affected node from the cluster and redistributes traffic to healthy servers. Once repairs are completed, the original node rej ...

Practical Example: Highly Available Apache Web Service with Heartbeat 1. Lab Environment Two RHEL/CentOS hosts: node-a – 192.168.1.130 node-b – 192.168.1.129 A floating virtual IP (VIP) 192.168.1.131/24 will be managed by Heartbeat and bound to whichever node is active. 2. Install Apache on Both Nodes sudo yum install -y httpd 3. Prepare the ...

Virtual IP Configuration virtual_ipaddress { 10.0.0.3/24 dev eth0 label eth0:1 } track_script { health_check } Failover Testing [root@lb01 ~]# systemctl is-active nginx active [root@lb01 ~]# ip a | grep 0.3 inet 10.0.0.3/24 scope global secondary eth0:1 [root@lb01 ~]# systemctl stop nginx [root@lb01 ~]# ip a | grep 0.3 # VIP migrated after ...