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diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/load_balancer.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/load_balancer.md index beeb57a0e32..75703327140 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/load_balancer.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/load_balancer.md @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ type: reference --- -# Load Balancer for GitLab HA +# Load Balancer for multi-node GitLab -In an active/active GitLab configuration, you will need a load balancer to route +In an multi-node GitLab configuration, you will need a load balancer to route traffic to the application servers. The specifics on which load balancer to use or the exact configuration is beyond the scope of GitLab documentation. We hope that if you're managing HA systems like GitLab you have a load balancer of @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ you need to use with GitLab. ## SSL -How will you handle SSL in your HA environment? There are several different +How will you handle SSL in your multi-node environment? There are several different options: - Each application node terminates SSL @@ -109,11 +109,15 @@ Configure DNS for an alternate SSH hostname such as `altssh.gitlab.example.com`. | ------- | ------------ | -------- | | 443 | 22 | TCP | +## Readiness check + +It is strongly recommend that multi-node deployments configure load balancers to utilize the [readiness check](../../user/admin_area/monitoring/health_check.md#readiness) to ensure a node is ready to accept traffic, before routing traffic to it. This is especially important when utilizing Puma, as there is a brief period during a restart where Puma will not accept requests. + --- Read more on high-availability configuration: -1. [Configure the database](database.md) +1. [Configure the database](../postgresql/replication_and_failover.md) 1. [Configure Redis](redis.md) 1. [Configure NFS](nfs.md) 1. [Configure the GitLab application servers](gitlab.md) |