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Pravesh Sudha · 2025-01-28T10:02:12.343Z

💡 Introduction Welcome to the World of Exploration! Today, we’re diving into an exciting experiment with NGINX as a load balancer to see how we can distribute traffic across multiple instances of an application. For those of you who are new here, I ...

Which algorithm does this load balancer uses by default to distribute traffic?, if lets say I have to use another algorithm, how can I do that?

That's easy, in the nginx conf file inside the upstream flask_cluster, specify another algo like least_connections and it will do the work.

Pravesh Sudha

what about default option?

The default is Round Robin (cyclic rotation). For example, we have three version, so request will go from v1 -> v2 -> v3 -> v1 -> v2 -> v3 -> .......(this goes on and on)

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