The process of Traffic Distributor installation is fairly simple with CirrusGrid – being specially packed for the Marketplace, it can be created in a few clicks and start working in just a matter of minutes. Herewith, the configurability of the solution is great, so let’s walk through the installation steps below, to learn about all of the available functionality and hidden nuances.
Note: The described flow is suitable for the installation from scratch, i.e. in case you want to route traffic for the new environments. In order to be applied to the already running and loaded applications in production, follow the Inject Traffic Distributor into Running Project guide.
1. Open the Marketplace frame by clicking on the appropriate button at the top of the dashboard.
2. Within the Apps tab of Marketplace, navigate to the Dev & Admin Tools section to locate the Traffic Distributor package (or just use search field at the top) and click the Install button for it.
3. On the very first installation, you’ll be shown frame with a brief solution overview and some of its key benefits highlighted:
Tip: Tick the corresponding Don’t show this message again check-box to skip this information window in future.
Click OK to proceed.
4. At the appeared interactive installation frame, you can specify the following parameters to configure your Traffic Distributor topology and to set up desired routing for backends.
The following data should to be specified:
Note: CirrusGrid endpoint URLs can’t be specified as backends for traffic distribution as they presuppose operating via external Public ports, whilst interaction in confines of a single Platform is built on Private ports usage.In this case, you need to set custom port redirects for your backends. For that, switch to the upstream section of the /etc/nginx/nginx-jelastic.conf load balancer configuration file inside your Traffic Distributor environment. Here, you need to add the required internal containers' port number to the appropriate backend IP addresses and, additionally, define it within the health check parameters.
5. After a couple of minutes, you’ll see an installation success window with a short advices on the Traffic Distributor usage.
Note: As Traffic Distributor loading depends only on the number of incoming requests, it does not require a lot of resources. Thus their default amount (namely, 1 Fixed cloudlet and ability to automatically vertically scale up to 16 cloudlets) will be enough to handle even the huge amount of simultaneous requests.
Using the links in the end of frame, you can learn how to:
After the Traffic Distributor installation, you’ll get a dedicated environment with the NGINX load balancer(s) and a special add-on attached. It ensures quick and simple re-configuration possibility for this solution and providing access to some additional options:
1. Hover over the NGINX instance in your Traffic Distributor environment and click the Add-ons button to open the corresponding tab.
2. In order to change the configurations for your add-on, click the Configure button in center of the frame or select the appropriate option from the menu list in the top right corner.
3. Within the opened form, you can re-configure any Traffic Distributor option just as during installation process:Options available for configuration are:
Tip: Using the Swap backends weights button, circled in the image above, you can quickly exchange the server’s Traffic ratio values.
Confirm changes with the Apply button.
4. After a while, you’ll see the corresponding success notification at the top right corner of dashboard.Here, you can click on the Show Logs button to open the dedicated file.
5. Within the opened traffic-distributor log, you can find information on the actions applied to your add-on with the corresponding operations timestamps and current distribution values:
Surely, you can access this log file manually at any time.
So, using the described steps you can apply changes to Traffic Distributor and easily track them via logs.
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