Nginx front-end proxy does not check that back-end omero-web is alive

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Nginx front-end proxy does not check that back-end omero-web is alive

Opened this issue 8 years ago · 2 comments

Haproxy connects to Nginx on idr-omeroreadonly-N which is always running even if OMERO.web is unavailable (e.g. during a restart). We should figure out a proper liveness check e.g. check the HTTP status code from Nginx

Answer 1 · 2018-03-08T13:17:05.000Z

Correction: It's a front-end nginx and not haproxy that connects to the backends. The open-source Nginx does not seem to support HTTP status-based checks: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-health-check/

I think we should replace it with haproxy.

Answer 2 · 2018-03-08T13:23:31.000Z

An addition benefit is we could use cookie based session pinning instead of by IP/24 (another limitation of the open-source Nginx)