Piranha

High Availability: Configure Piranha for HTTP, HTTPS and MySQL

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In this post we will complete over the Piranha configuration with HTTP and HTTPS load balancing using direct-routing with firewall marks and MySQL load balancing using direct-routing only.

HTTP/HTTPS will need to be accessed by users via virtual public IP 130.44.50.120 while MySQL service will be accessed by web servers using virtual private IP 192.168.100.30. Kindly refer to picture below for the full architecture:

All Servers
SELINUX must be turned off on all servers. Change the SELINUX configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/selinux:

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CentOS: Configure Piranha as Load Balancer (Direct Routing Method)

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I am currently working on a web cluster project using CentOS. In this project, I have 2 web servers running on Apache and mounted the same document root to serve the HTTP content. I also have 2 servers in front of it to become the load balancer and failover to increase high availability of the two-node web server cluster. The virtual IP will be hold by load balancer #1 with auto failover to load balancer #2.

You may refer to diagram below to get clearer picture:

I am using following variables:

All servers’ OS: CentOS 6.2 64bit
Web server #1: 192.168.0.221
Web server #2: 192.168.0.222
Load balancer #1: 192.168.0.231
Load balancer #2: 192.168.0.232
Virtual IP: 192.168.0.220

Load Balancer Server
1. All steps should be done in both servers unless specified. We will install Piranha and other required packages using yum:

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