A named group of nodes within a balancer that share session state. Sticky sessions are tracked at the cluster level, so a session stays on its node as long as that node is up. Each node carries a status of UP, DOWN, or TAKEOUT; only UP nodes receive traffic.

Example Configuration

balancer:
   name: DemoBalancer
   clusters:
     - name: PROD
       nodes:
         - host: node1.predic8.com
           port: 8080
         - host: node2.predic8.com
           port: 8090

balancer:
   name: DemoBalancer
   clusters:
     - name: PROD
       nodes:
         - host: node1.predic8.com
           port: 8080
         - host: node2.predic8.com
           port: 8090

Syntax

cluster:
  name: <string>
  nodes:
    - <node>

cluster:
  name: <string>
  nodes:
    - <node>

Attributes

Name	Required	Default	Description	Examples
name	false	Default	Name of the cluster, used to address it from the administration interface and the lbclient.	PROD

Child Structure

Element	Cardinality	Description
node	0..*	The backend nodes that make up this cluster.

Can be used in

balancer clusters