Configure active-passive web app server in Azure

Question

I have an application which I need to set up in active-passive mode behind the load balancer such that all connections should go to the active instance. If the active instance go down, it should start sessions from passive one.

The only info I gather was that we could only set up active instances behind the load balancer and it will distribute the load across them.

Appreciate any leads here.

Answer 1

As Gaurav say, we can use Azure Traffic Manager to achieve active-passive module. Traffic Manager is a DNS level load balancer.

For now, we can't set active-passive module behind Azure Load Balancer.
As a workaround, we can deploy Haproxy, and set node1 as master and node2 used as backup:

-------------
 |  HAProxy  |
 -------------
  |         `
  |active    ` backup
  |           `
------       ------
| node1 |       | node2 |
------       ------

The configuration below makes HAProxy to use node1 when available, otherwise fail over to node2 if available (automatic failover and failback):

global
   log /dev/log local0
   log /dev/log local1 notice
   chroot /var/lib/haproxy
   stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin
   stats timeout 30s
   user haproxy
   group haproxy
   daemon

defaults
   log global
   mode http
   option httplog
   option http-server-close
   timeout connect 4s
   timeout client 20s
   timeout server 20s

frontend ft_app
   bind 10.0.0.6:80
   default_backend bk_app

backend bk_app
   server node1 10.0.0.4:80 check
   server node2 10.0.0.5:80 check backup

In this way, we can achieve active-passive module.