Skip to content

Balancing network traffic

In this section, you will create a route to balance network traffic between our two deployed applications.

  1. Change to the Administrator perspective.
  2. Verify the Project selected is your project. If it is not, click the pulldown and select your project.
  3. Click Networking in the left-hand taskbar.
  4. Click Routes in the Networking sub-menu.

On this screen you can see the defaults routes that were automatically created when you deployed the NGINX container. Next, we will create a new route that will balance incoming requests to both of the NGINX servers.

  1. Click Create Route.

  1. Configure the following properties:

Name: nginx-route Service: nginx-server-1

  1. Click on + Add Alternate Service and update with:

Weight: 50

Alternative Service Target: nginx-server-2

Alternative Service Weight: 50

Target Port: 8080->8080

Make sure both the Weight and Alternate Service weight fields are set to 50

  1. Click Create.

Once the route is created, your web browser will redirect to the details page of the newly created route.

  1. Record the Location (URL) of the nginx-route.

The default OpenShift load balancer is used to distribute incoming requests sent to the route's Location URL. Be sure to copy the Location URL as you will use it in the next section.