GO BALANCER

This is a load Balancer built with go that can balance the requests across Backends.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Configuration
3. Future Work

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Harichandra-Prasath/Go-Balancer.git
cd Go-Balancer

2. Create config.json Configuration

3. Run the application

make run

Configuration

Below is the template for config.json

{
    "Port":,
    "Backends":["","",...],
    "ALGO":"",
    "STATIC_ROOT":"",
    "MEDIA_ROOT":"",
    "Poll_Period":
}

1. Port : INT
   Port for the Go-Balancer
2. Backends : [ ]String
   List of Url strings of the backends
3. ALGO : String
   Algorithm used to balance the requests
4. STATIC_ROOT : String
   Path string of the directory used to server Static Content
5. MEDIA_ROOT : String
   Path string of the directory used to server Media Content
6. Poll_Period : UINT
   Time in seconds that should be used for Passive Health checking of the backends

It is must for the config.json to have all the fields, exlusion of any field will result in failure

Currently Supported Algorithms

"RR" : Round Robin
"LC" : Least Connections
"RANDOM" : Randomly choosen backend

Path MUST be Absolute from the root of the System

Future-Work

1. Including additional Balancing Algorithms like Spill Over , etc..