HTTP/HTTPS Load Balancer written in GO
The easiest way to have a local development installation of eps-conduit is to use vagrant.
- Virtualbox
- Vagrant
$ git clone git@github.com:orlandogolang/eps-conduit.git
$ vagrant up
These vagrant commands should create everything you need to develop and test eps-conduit. In particular, a lightweight "hello world" web application is running in the backgorund on ports 8001 and 8002. It is managed with supervisor.
$ vagrant ssh
$ cd /vagrant/bin
$ sudo ./eps-conduit
Note
You must run eps-conduit as sudo to use the default logpath. Otherwise, specify a logpath
accessible by a non-root user.
After running these commands, eps-conduit should be running in your terminal session.
Open another terminal window on your host machine, and run the following command:
$ curl localhost:8000
You should see a message similar to the following:
Hello world, I'm answering your request from backend port 8001
Subsequent curl commands should yield responses from alternating ports (8001 & 8002) which confirms the load balancer is distributing requests, via round-robin, across the two available "hello world" processes
By default, eps-conduit will bind to port 8000, but any port can be specified.
| Flag | Description | Example Usage |
|---|---|---|
| -b | specify a list of backend hosts | eps-conduit -b "10.2.8.1, 10.2.8.2" |
| -bind | specify what port to bind to (defaults to 8000) | eps-conduit -bind 80 |
| -mode | specifies what mode to use (http or https) | eps-conduit -mode https |
| -cert | specify an SSL cert file (for https mode) | eps-conduit -cert mycert.crt |
| -key | specify an SSL keyfile (for https mode) | eps-conduit -key mykeyfile.key |
| -log | specify a path to store access logs | eps-conduit -log /var/log/eps-conduit.log |