Nginx Load Balancer for Shlokas. This is a simple load balancer for the Shlokas project. It is a simple Nginx server that redirects requests to the backend servers.

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Default
BALANCER_ENV	Environment. Should be dev or prod	dev

Mounts

Path	Description
.logs	Nginx logs. Error and access logs.
.data	SSL certificates should be placed in the .data directory. The file names should be server.crt and server.key for production.

Development

.container/run.sh will start the server in development mode. This will start the server in port 80 and will redirect requests to the backend servers.

Enable HTTPS for local development

1. Add 127.0.0.1 shlokas.dev to /etc/hosts:
2. Add rootCA.rem as a trusted root certificate.
3. Run BALANCER_ENV=dev .container/run.sh

Production

1. Copy server.csr and server.key to .data
2. BALANCER_ENV=prod .container/run.sh will start the server in production mode.