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Service discovery in load balancing

Ranuj Mahajan

May 22, 2023

can load balancer do service discovery in distributed environment ?

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telagam.dinakar 2 years ago

Definitely yes, it is possible as far as I know using the Service Registry. Please find below the architecture of nginx which has this in place.

[https://www.nginx.com/blog/service-discovery-in-a-microservices-architecture/](https://www.nginx.com/blog/service-discovery...

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Design Gurus2 years ago

Yes, a load balancer can indeed be used to facilitate service discovery in a distributed environment.

A load balancer, particularly one operating at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model), can play a key role in service discovery. When a new service instance ...

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