Setting-Up Apache LoadBalancer With Ansible

Before we start using ansible for setting-up LB. lets create a lb-config.j2 which will our this will be configuration template of our LB, create in /home/ec2-user/ansible/config

vim lb-config.j2

Content of lb-config.j2

ProxyRequests off
<Proxy balancer://webcluster >
  {% for hosts in groups['webservers'] %}
    BalancerMember http://{{hostvars[hosts]['ansible_host']}}
  {% endfor %}
    ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests
</Proxy>

# Optional
<Location /balancer-manager>
  SetHandler balancer-manager
</Location>

ProxyPass /balancer-manager !
ProxyPass / balancer://webcluster/

Go to playbooks directory on ansible host and create setup-app.yml
```
vim setup-lb.yml
```
Content of setup-app.yml, Click Here!
Now run your playbook with:
```
ansible-playbook setup-lb.yml
```

Setting-Up Apache LoadBalancer With Ansible

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