How do I cluster ServiceMix?

Question

I am looking for some initial pointers on how to cluster a ServiceMix solution. Basically what I need is:

• having 2 (or more) ServiceMix instances serving my ro

Answer 1

From what it sounds like, all you need is two ServiceMix instances running side by side with no failover specifically configured. Failover is there if you want a cluster of instances, only one of which services requests.

Ignore the JBI stuff - it's legacy. Distributed OSGi is a red herring in the use case that you have described.

As boday suggests, Cellar is used to manage the installation of your bundles uniformly across a logical group of Karaf/ServiceMix instances, so you can manage them from one location as opposed to installing new versions on each instance by hand.