Commit 7be826df authored by Evan Read's avatar Evan Read

Merge branch 'wc-praefect-lb-gitaly' into 'master'

Add note on LB config

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!37448
parents 07ff767b 3c518e68
......@@ -658,6 +658,13 @@ internal traffic from the GitLab application to the Praefect nodes. The
specifics on which load balancer to use or the exact configuration is beyond the
scope of the GitLab documentation.
NOTE: **Note:**
The load balancer must be configured to accept traffic from the Gitaly nodes in
addition to the GitLab nodes. Some requests handled by
[`gitaly-ruby`](index.md#gitaly-ruby) sidecar processes call into the main Gitaly
process. `gitaly-ruby` uses the Gitaly address set in the GitLab server's
`git_data_dirs` setting to make this connection.
We hope that if you’re managing HA systems like GitLab, you have a load balancer
of choice already. Some examples include [HAProxy](https://www.haproxy.org/)
(open-source), [Google Internal Load Balancer](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/internal/),
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