AWS Load Balancers

To distribute traffic to the Octopus web portal on multiple nodes, you need to use a HTTP load balancer. AWS provides a solution to distribute HTTP/HTTPS traffic to EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing is a highly available, secure, and elastic load balancer. There are three implementations of ELB;

If you are only using Listening Tentacles, we recommend using the Application Load Balancer.

However, Polling Tentacles don’t work well with the Application Load Balancer, so instead, we recommend using the Network Load Balancer. To setup a Network Load Balancer for Octopus High Availability with Polling Tentacles take a look at this knowledge base article.

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Page updated on Wednesday, May 22, 2024