BYO-Load-Balancer

(Bring Your Own) Load Balancer

Blog

Read the blog post about this application here

Developing

• To initialize or clean the build directory

./scripts/clean.sh

• To make a clean build and run the application with the config file

./scripts/run.sh

Testing

3 types of test servers are present in the tests/ directory

• local: Run multiple instances of a basic ExpressJS server locally
  • Install the dependencies with npm i first then run them with npm start
• echo: Run multiple instances of the Echo-Server
  • Run the setup.sh file to clone the repository
  • Run the npm start command to start the servers
• docker: Run the same echo server but in docker along with the load balancer

Modify the byolb.config file to point to the correct host and ports. Run the server:

CONFIG_FILE=/path/to/byolb.config ./build/src/lb