Can nginx act as a load-balancer for IBM Aspera?

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:59:26PM -0400, blason wrote:

Hi there,

> I am trying to build a reverse proxy as well as load balancer using below
> link. Can someone please confirm if below scenario can be achieved?
> I would really appreciate if someone can go through the links and wanted to
> understand if sticky or persistence connection can be possible with Nginx
> LB?

Untested, but it looks like using "hash" with the $remote_addr for both
http and stream, should probably do what you want for this "persistence".

https://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_upstream_module.html#hash
https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#hash

> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aspera-faspex/4.4.1?topic=systems-expected-load-balancer-behavior

If you have a system that you can test against, it should hopefully be
clear whether the traffic is going to where you want it to go.

Good luck with it,

	f
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