Configure Reverse Proxy Using Ansible

First, let’s understand what is a load balancer?

A load balancer does the work of routing client requests across all servers capable of fulfilling those requests in a manner that maximizes speed and capacity utilization and ensures that no one server is overworked, which could degrade performance.

A load balancer performs the following functions:

• Distributes client requests or network load efficiently across multiple servers
• Ensures high availability and reliability by sending requests only to servers that are online
• Provides the flexibility to add or subtract servers as demand dictates

My Workspace Where I have kept the inventory file, playbook and private key file: /loadbalance

Inventory File:

Proxy server IP: virtual machine : 192.168.43.238

Webserver IP:

• virtual machine : 192.168.43.131
• aws-ec2-instance : public IP==>13.127.228.92

private IP==>172.31.1.222

Ansible Configuration File : /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

Now we will configure precreated haproxy.cfg file So that we can copy it to the proxy server later :

index.html

ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK:

Host : load

Host : webserver

Now we will run ansible play book : load.yml

ansible-playbook load.yml

After running the playbook using the above command our setup will be ready. Now we will access the IP of the load-balancer at port 8080 and will refresh to see that after every refresh we get connected to a different back end web server every time thus maintaining the load balancing.

AFTER REFRESH:

We see that our webserver IP has changed

Here we have successfully created our load balancer using ansible

Thank you!!!