How to set up load balancing policy when using gateway-http profile?

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse
    • 6.x

Issue

  • What is the default load balancing policy for gateway-http profile?
  • How to set up a round-robin load balancing policy on gateway-http profile?

Resolution

gateway-http is a profile for web applications or web services usually used in front of Red Hat JBoss Fuse to distribute the traffic between all fabric containers.

By default the load balance behavior is round-robin, but you can use the following policies: round-robin, random or sticky configuring the FABRIC8HTTPGATEWAY_SERVICE_LOAD_BALANCER properties inside the io.fabric8.gateway.http.properties file as follows:

FABRIC8HTTPGATEWAY_SERVICE_LOAD_BALANCER = round-robin

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