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gRPC Load Balancing in 5 minutes

Prerequisites

Install Consul. You also need the Go toolchain installed, including gRPC bindings.

Install

Install and compile the examples:

$ go get github.com/olivere/grpc
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/olivere/grpc/lb/consul/example
$ make

You should now have two files in the ./bin directory: server and client.

Try it

Run Consul. Something like this should do the job:

$ consul agent -dev -advertise=127.0.0.1

Start some servers (at least 2).

$ ./bin/server

Run the client, and execute e.g. 100 requests:

$ ./bin/client -n=100

Watch how the requests get load-balanced between the servers.