[Pki-users] load balancers

[Bob Lord]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Christina Fu <cfu at redhat.com> wrote:

> bob.lord at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'd like to put some load balancers in front of a set of TPS instances
>> (acting as a single virtual TPS) and in front of the CAs that would issue
>> the actual certs.  The balancers would be more for reliability and uptime
>> than performance.
>> Are there any limitations I need to know about?  Is it possible to have
>> multiple TPS instances talk to a single TKS instance? /B
>>
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> You can have load balancers in front of TPS instances.  Two things I'd like
> to call to your attention:
>
> 1. Between ESC and TPS, HTTP chunked encoding is used, so your load
> balancer needs to support that.
> 2. The phone home url on the ESC needs to point to the load balancer.
>

The load balancers are (usually) transparent, so I'd still point them to
tps.corp.example.com, and the load balancer would deal with the connection
consistency, right?  Let me know if I'm not thinking about this right.

-Bob
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