How can I figure out which server behind Elastic Load Balancer is now processing requests? Thank you.
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How can I figure out which server behind Elastic Load Balancer is now processing requests? Thank you.
You may have a simple shell script that runs on start-up of the instance ans writes the required metadata to a file. Read that file from your application, and have your application spit out what public-ip (or instance-id, or hostname) it’s responding from.
Otherwise, you may have your app to make
GETrequest to metadata URL for host specific information and read it out while you are processing on it.you will do something like this
and then read this file out from your app.
You can see all the metadata options from