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I have done a setup for automation deployment using team-city and octopus. it is successfully deploying to required servers but I need to load balance as well. Any idea how can I combine them together. Or any other best option for performing load balancing with octopus.

sam
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  • Hi sam -- just checking in. How are you doing with this? – John Hoerr Apr 29 '13 at 16:34
  • I want to do it with NLB. Now trying to write a script for it but stuck at credentials step. Any idea. please check my query here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17021459/getting-stop-nlbclusternode-a-parameter-cannot-be-found-that-matches-parameter – sam Jun 10 '13 at 11:22

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We use the Application Request Routing extension for IIS to provide load balancing for our WFF-based farm. ARR requires an additional 'front-end' IIS server which acts as a reverse proxy for your 'back-end' application servers. It works a treat, and we've been really happy with it.

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Octopus can tie into your load balancing solution, but it will not perform load balancing.

Most enterprise applications use a hardware network load balancing appliance. For example F5's Big-IP product line. You can also create a software solution like John Hoerr suggested.

Once you have a solution in place you can then script Octopus to automate configuring your load balancer in a way that meets you business needs.

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