Hawatel_tlb

Hawatel_tlb is a ruby version of load balancer which the purpose is to dynamic return selected address IP/hostname based on specified algorithm. Depend on settings a gem has built features like regularly monitoring status backend nodes, response time, calculating fastest node based on history, flapping detection and more. Currently, supported algorithms are round robin, dynamic ration, fastest, ratio and weighted.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'hawatel_tlb'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install hawatel_tlb

Available algorithms

Name	Description
dynamicratio	Dynamic load balancing algorithm based on dynamic ratio weights. Weight for each node is setting up by following formula: 100 - (respond_time / sum_respond_time) * 100
fastest	Algorithm based on history statistics about respond time and 'online' states (flapping detection). Return host with fastest responds time.
ratio	Static load balancing algorithm based on ratio weights
roundrobin	Standard Round-robin algorithm with fail node and flapping detection
weighted	Algorithm based on specified by user weight, return currently available host with highest metric.

Example usage

Create client

client = HawatelTlb::Client.new

Add hosts to group

client.add({:host => 'api.example.com', :port => 80, :weight => 0, :state => 'enable'})
client.add({:host => 'api.example2.com', :port => 80, :weight => 0, :state => 'enable'})
client.add({:host => 'api.example3.com', :port => 80, :weight => 0, :state => 'enable'})

Set algorithm

client.configure({:mode => 'fastest'})

Call API request

p client.node
{:host=>"example2.com", :port=>80}

Net::HTTP.get(client.node[:host], '/q=seach_example')

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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