Been porting workloads from AWS to GCE lately and one big piece of infrastructure that I rely on is pfSense. pfSense is a FreeBSD based appliance which does advanced routing, firewall and VPN for your cloud-based infrastructure. Using pfSense, one can establish IPSEC tunnels between the various AWS regions and the clients office network. While […]
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Configuring Nginx Plus For HA On AWS Cloud
Nginx Plus can be run in a 2 node HA cluster as a replacement for ELBs. Please see my previous previous post on situations where it might make sense to use Nginx Plus instead of AWS ELB services. Below are the steps for launching an Nginx Plus cluster in Classic EC2:
If you have used AWS Elastic Load Balancers before, you might have come across this note while creating a new ELB: Because the set of IP addresses associated with a LoadBalancer can change over time, you should never create an “A” record with any specific IP address. If you want to use a friendly DNS […]