Is it possible to make Cluster Activegate geo-redundant?

[Peter_Lepsis]

Dear all,

one of our customer asked me this question:
 is it possible to make their Cluster Activegate Georedundant? I mean that they have to locations where bare metal servers are located and they want the same Cluster Activegate to one server in both locations as active-passive or active-active servers.

Is It possible?
Thanks a lot

Kind regards

Peter Lepsis

[Julius_Loman · Accepted solution]

Yes, cluster activegates are stateless. You can deploy multiple instances across your data centers. You will typically use some load balancer in front of them or if you can expose the Cluster Active gate port directly to the internet , you don't need it. 

For the cluster nodes it's a different question.

[Peter_Lepsis]

Hello Julius,

thanks a lot for the answer. And another one came up regarding this. Which methid is preferred:
use an LB to forward the requests, data, atc to port 9999 from another port or reconfigure activegate to accept everything on other port than 9999?
Thanks a lot

Kind regards

Peter

[Julius_Loman]

I'd recommend having cluster activegate on port 443, especially if mobile apps will send beacons through Cluster ActiveGate or you will use agentless RUM. Cluster ActiveGate cannot be directly configured to use ports lower than 9999/tcp. But you can configure local firewall to do port translation.

It depends on the customer's requirements - most customers prefer load balancer as they have standardised architecture patterns of exposing services through load balancers, where they also do SSL termination and request inspection.