Question

In my service i have.
1. A Worker Role.
2.A Web Role
with input endpoints defined for both.
a normal HTTP endpoint for the WebRole and a TCP endpoint on port 80 for the WorkerRole.
My question is that wether the azure loadbalaner will balance the traffic on these two endpoints.treating them as one?
what i mean by this is suppose i have 2 instances to the WebRole and 2 instances of WorkerRole then i have total 4 input endpoints.
so the LoadBalancer will load balance on 2+2 endpoints or 4 endpoints(treating all four as equal).
if not then what mechanism can be used to reach any one of the two endpoints.

Answer 1

I suspected that the input endpoint you opened on the web role should not be 80, since it had been used by your worker role. So let’s say you have an input HTTP endpoint on web role which is 8080, and an input TCP endpoint on worker role that is 80.

And if you have 2 instances for each role, in the load balance there’s still two endpoint opened, but you have 4 internal ports on your 4 instances. And the azure load balance will route the request from these 2 public input endpoints to the 4 internal endpoints.

HTH.