Configuring HTTP/2 on an OVHcloud Load Balancer service
Configuring HTTP/2 on an OVHcloud Load Balancer service
Last updated 15th January 2018
Objective
The OVHcloud Load Balancer does not currently support the HTTP/2 protocol. However, you can bypass this restriction by using TCP mode with the ALPN extension of the TLS protocol.
ALPN (Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation) is a TLS extension that enables the application layer to negotiate which protocol will be used (h2 in this case).
This guide is designed to help you create an HTTP/2 service with the OVHcloud Load Balancer solution. Here, we will configure this service to balance the load across several servers responding with HTTP/2.
Requirements
- You need to have created a TCP front-end.
- You need to have created a TCP farm, with servers added to it.
Instructions
The order in which you create elements is important: the routes must be configured before you attach them to rules.
Add a route
We will add a route to our service.
Via the API
- Service:
- Settings:
-
serviceName
<Load Balancer ID>action
type
"farm"target
<ID of your TCP farm that must manage the HTTP/2>frontendId
<ID of your front-end TCP 443>
Add a rule
We will now add a rule to our route.
Via the API
- Service:
- Settings:
-
serviceName
<Load Balancer ID>routeId
<ID of the route created above>field
"protocol"match
"is"pattern
"http/2.0"
Apply the modifications
The modifications made to your OVHcloud Load Balancer must be explicitly applied in each of the zones configured for your service. Only at this point will they be visible to your website visitors. This way, you can make complex configuration changes in one go.
If you have several zones, you must apply the same configuration for each of them.
Via the API
Refresh a zone:
- Service:
- Settings:
-
serviceName *
<Load Balancer ID>zone
<zone to deploy the configuration in>
Confirm
After you have completed all of these steps, you should have a functional load balancer service for your HTTP/2 servers. You can now confirm the status of your service by requesting it from your OVHcloud Load Balancer service, then verifying the response version:
curl -I --http2 https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/
HTTP/2 200
Go further
Join our community of users on https://community.ovh.com/en/.
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