Load balancer setup about anycable-rails HOT 4 CLOSED

Found this article, looks like it could be useful https://blog.prefab.cloud/blog/grpc-aws-some-gotchas

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Is there just 1 connection made with the grpc server or are there multiple connections?

Right now we use multiple connections (connection pool).

I'm guessing the connections are long lived?

Yep, connections are long-lived HTTP/2 clients.

So, you need gRPC load balancer (we've only tried with Envoy).

I'm not sure, whether AWS support gRPC load balancing out of the box (looks like it should be possible via Network Load Balancer, and they also added Envoy support for ECS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/setting-up-an-envoy-front-proxy-on-amazon-ecs/).

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Thanks @palkan do you know if the balancing rule needs to be sticky or if it can use round robin or other types of balancing rules?

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I think, round robin should be fine. Don't see any reason for more complex strategies.

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