Chapter 7. Load Balancing WildFly

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing and configuring Apache HTTPD
  • Installing and configuring mod_cluster for Apache
  • Balancing WildFly using auto advertising – UDP
  • Balancing WildFly using a list of available balancers – TCP
  • Balancing using the HTTP connector instead of AJP
  • Preserve WildFly workers while restarting Apache
  • Balancing the same context for different applications
  • Rolling updates

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn how to load balance your WildFly instances. Load balancing is the capability to distribute the workload across multiple nodes, in our case, WildFly nodes. This technique is used for optimizing resources, minimizing the response time, and maximizing the application ...

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