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Re: mosquitto high availability

 

Hi Roger,

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:08:57PM +0100, Roger Light wrote:
> Mosquitto supports bridged connections between brokers and share
> topics, so not all of your multiple instances need be just waiting
> around. You have to be careful not to create any topic loops though.
> It doesn't currently support creation and removal of bridges without
> restarting, but it's something that'll happen at some point.

Does that mean that I could have a simpler HA setup by having two
brokers bridged and have clients connect to them by DNS round robin?

Or perhaps multiple brokers behind haproxy, with the load balancer
deciding which one to connect a client to and performing dead server
detection..

Cheers,
Andy


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