Nginx load balancing

• If you want to load balance request from nginx you can use upstreams.

• I have one application in ubuntu machine :

• And one from windows machine :

They are just plain static files serves on 8080 port.

I will upstream for load balancing for above two application :

    upstream my_upstream {
        server 172.30.16.1:8080 weight=5;
        server 192.168.137.133:8080 weight=4;
    }

    server {
        listen 80;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://my_upstream;
        }
    }

• You should start nginx.exe .

• Send request to :

http://localhost/Sample.html

• When you sent request over and over again, you will see there is some kind of balanced handling (depends on weight paramater):

Happy serving 🐋