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How to Configure NGINX as TCP/UDP Load Balancer in Linux

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Pradeep Kumar
Oct 27, 2020

As we know NGINX is one of the highly rated open source web server but it can also be used as TCP and UDP load balancer. One of the main benefits of using nginx as load balancer over the HAProxy is that it can also load balance UDP based traffic. In this article we will demonstrate how NGINX can be configured as Load balancer for the applications deployed in Kubernetes cluster.
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Pradeep Kumar

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