In my quest to make my services highly available I decided to use keepalived. keepalived is a framework for both load balancing and high availability that implements VRRP. This is a protocol that you see on some routers and has been implemented in keepalived. It creates a Virtual IP (or VIP, or floating IP) that acts as a gateway to route traffic to all participating hosts. This VIP that can provide a high availability setup and fail over to another host in the event that one is down. In this video, we’ll set up and configure keepalived, we’ll test our configuration to make sure it’s working, and we’ll also talk about some advanced use cases like load balancing.
Installation
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sudo apt update
sudo apt install keepalived
sudo apt install libipset13
Configuration
Find your IP
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ip a
edit your config
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sudo nano /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf
First node
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vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state MASTER
interface ens18
virtual_router_id 55
priority 150
advert_int 1
unicast_src_ip 192.168.30.31
unicast_peer {
192.168.30.32
}
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass C3P9K9gc
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.30.100/24
}
}
Second node
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vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state BACKUP
interface ens18
virtual_router_id 55
priority 100
advert_int 1
unicast_src_ip 192.168.30.32
unicast_peer {
192.168.30.31
}
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass C3P9K9gc
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.30.100/24
}
}
Start and enable the service
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sudo systemctl enable --now keepalived.service
stopping the service
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sudo systemctl stop keepalived.service
get the status
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sudo systemctl status keepalived.service
nginx example
create index.html to mount
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nano /home/user/docker_volumes/nginx/index.html
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>Hello From Primary Node</title>
<style>
h1{
font-weight:lighter;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello World 1
</h1>
</body>
</html>
install nginx via docker
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docker run --name some-nginx -v /home/user/docker_volumes/nginx:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -d -p 8080:80 nginx
visit your VIP on port 8080
PiHole
In this video we covered the PiHole use case. After setting this up, be sure to check out the tutorial on Gravity Sync
https://docs.technotim.live/posts/ha-pi-hold-gravity-sync/
Links
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