How to implement distributed systems

[liusuyi2021]

How can I achieve distributed deployment, and when a single mediaMTX reaches its limit, I want to scale the service?

[aler9]

Hello, while native scalability is still under development (see #998), you can already instantiate as many instances as you want and distribute the load by using a TCP load balancer in front of them. This works perfectly until all instances have the same configuration and all the sources are fixed (i.e. they point to fixed endpoints):

user --> load balancer --> instance 1
                       --> instance 2

On the other hand, if sources are dynamic (i.e. they are published by a client), you have to use a single instance and distribute the load by using a swarm of other secondary instances in front of it, each configured to proxy requests from the main instance:

user --> load balancer --> instance 1 --> main instance
                       --> instance 2