The haproxy approach tends to work well so long as haproxy it is located on
the machine from which the riak client is establishing connections to the
riak cluster. This way the client always talks over localhost and haproxy
is unlikely to be a failure point. So in your service tier, each machine
ru
Phil,
Its a pretty well known issue. If you don't mind an older version of the
riak client there is a folk on github that does support this
https://github.com/bretthoerner/riak-python-client/branches.
Your other option is to manage it in your app or subclass the transport
object.
Some people use h
Howdy Philip,
This behavior varies from client to client. When a client doesn't support load
balancing, many people have taken to using HAProxy or nginx to spread the load
across an entire cluster. I believe OJ Reeves wrote an article long ago about
this very subject. You can find it over at
h
Hi,
I've just created my first 3 node riak cluster and must admit that I'm
stunned! However, it seems like the RiakClient is missing a really
important functionality for HA software. AFAIK you can only specify a
single server. I want to host a large riak cluster and a frontend
cluster separately.
