carrousel(8)

💖 carrousel — perform load balancing services 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the carrousel(8) page, it's giving system manager's manual energy and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

carrousel — perform load balancing services

like, that's the whole vibe. it balances loads. slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

carrousel [-c config]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. one optional flag. lowkey obsessed with how simple that is. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it actually do? bestie, it relays incoming connections to any of a number of available backend nodes. that's the main character job fr fr — connections come in, carrousel sends them off to a backend that can handle them.

and the way the backends show up? they don't get hand-picked by you, no no. backends register themselves using the transponder(8) program. so it's a whole self-selecting little ecosystem, they just walk in and announce themselves, and carrousel is like "okay noted, you're in the rotation 💖".

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c config — read configuration from config instead of the default configuration file. so if you want it to look at a different config than the standard one, this is your girl. otherwise it just uses the default. no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're part of the lore:

• carrousel(8)
• fair.conf(5)
• fair(7)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! now go balance some loads, you've got this 🫶✨

cute little sign-off: this page is from Debian GNU/Linux, dated 2005-05-31, and yes, it's the carrousel(8) manual — a certified classic, no notes. 💜