Load Balancer Configuration

Quick Start

Configure nginx to distribute traffic across multiple backend servers with health checks and automatic failover.

Instructions

Step 1: Define upstream block

Create an upstream block with your backend servers:

upstream backend {
    # Load balancing method (optional, defaults to round-robin)
    least_conn;  # or ip_hash, or omit for round-robin
    
    # Backend servers
    server backend1.example.com:8080 weight=3;