Custom NiFi Load Balancing Processor

Posted on by David Vassallo

We're big fans of NiFi at CyberSift - we use it as our primary platform to ingest data from a wide variety of sources, process the data and POST it to an Elasticsearch back-end. During our time spent with NiFi, we built a basic, but useful load-balancing processor: https://github.com/dvas0004/nifi-loadbalancer The readme is hopefully quite clear, … Continue reading Custom NiFi Load Balancing Processor

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Nugget Post: Running NiFi behind an SSL reverse proxy

Posted on by David Vassallo

Scenario User --- (HTTPS) ---> NGINX Reverse Proxy --- (HTTP) ---> NiFi Typical NGINX Reverse Proxy config: location /nifi { proxy_set_header Host $http_host; add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials" "true"; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9900; } Note: the proxy_set_header Host is necessary otherwise NiFi will return "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" in it's links and you'll end up with a bunch of HTTP 404 … Continue reading Nugget Post: Running NiFi behind an SSL reverse proxy