Dynamic Load Balancing with Consul and Nginx Plus

What if you could unlock the dynamic load balancing of public cloud, without the cost? What if you could have a consistently same solution for on-premises AND in public cloud? Networking in the data center has moved to a much more dynamic model. Public cloud has driven a level of agility that has seemed to be unmatched, and the networking domain is no exception to this. Deploy a set of web-servers, put it behind a cloud native load balancer, and it’ll automatically respond to scale by adding it to the load balancer in question... for a cost. Seems easy enough and, while costly, the operational benefits of not worrying about the day-2 scaling operations has often outweighed the financial impact. What if there was another way?

Video Sections

0:00 — Introduction

3:30 — Demo Architecture: Nginx+, Consul, and CDNs

5:10 — Intro to Consul

10:19 — Consul Template and Nginx

19:34 — Demo: Nginx+, Consul, and CDNs

32:34 — Live Q&A -

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