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How to integrate Laravel Forge with AWS load balancer

Did you know that Laravel Forge opens doors to seamless server creation across different providers including AWS?

Its ability to orchestrate load balancers is key to scalability and reliability. Today, we are going to take a look at how to integrate Laravel Forge with AWS Load Balancer.

Did you know that there are three Load Balancer methods in Laravel Forge?

• Round Robin: This method distributes requests evenly across all servers. It is the default method.
• Least Connections: This method routes requests to the server with the least connections.
• IP Hash: Here, the destination server for a request is determined based on the client’s IP address.

How to Create Load Balancers with Laravel Forge

1. First, we have to click “Create Server” in Laravel Forge and choose our provider.
2. Then, select load balancer under Server Types.
3. Next, we have to select the region for hosting our servers.
4. Furthermore, we can choose a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) if it is available as it offers added security.

Set up Auto Scaling AWS with Laravel Forge

1. To begin with, head to the EC2 dashboard in the AWS Management Console.
2. Then, click on “Load Balancers” in the left sidebar to manage and configure the load balancers.
3. Now, it is time to locate the load balancer’s DNS name and update our domain’s DNS records to point to this name.

How to integrate Laravel Forge with AWS Load Balancer

1. We can use Laravel Forge to set up and configure EC2 instances tailored for our Laravel application.
2. Then, set up an AWS Load Balancer, and select the load balancer type like Application Load Balancer (ALB) for web applications.
3. After that, we have to register the EC2 instances generated by Forge with the AWS Load Balancer. This enables the load balancer to efficiently distribute incoming traffic across these instances.
4. Finally, complete the integration by pointing the domain’s DNS settings to the AWS Load Balancer’s endpoint.

Some of the benefits of integrating Laravel Forge with AWS Load Balancer include:

1. We can easily scale our Laravel application horizontally by adding more instances to the load balancer.
2. It lets us distribute traffic intelligently.
3. It helps achieve optimal performance by distributing incoming traffic across multiple instances, preventing overload on any single server.

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Conclusion

Today, our Support Engineers demonstrated how to integrate Laravel Forge with the AWS load balancer.