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  • Getting Started
    • Tutorials & Examples
    • Architecture Overview
    • Installation
    • Getting Started
  • Configuration
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    • Security Guide
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    • Password Reset
    • Authentication
  • Clustering & Deployment
    • Kubernetes Deployment
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    • Three-Node Cluster (Bare Metal)
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  • DNS & Networking
    • ACME / Let's Encrypt Certificates
    • HTTPS Redirects
    • BGP Route Health Injection
    • Secondary DNS / Zone Transfers
    • Encrypted DNS (DoT/DoH)
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    • Alerting
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    • GitOps User Guide
  • Reference
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    • Filter Chains
    • Composite Health Policy
    • Service Discovery
    • Troubleshooting Reference
    • Datastore (rqlite)
    • Query Path Tracer
    • Performance
    • RFC 2136 / TSIG Keys
    • Zone Transfers
    • Geo Rules
    • Multi-Tenancy
    • API Reference
    • Licensing
    • Health Checks
    • Topology
    • State Sync Reference
    • Warmup Gates
    • Circuit Breaker
    • BGP Reference
    • Web UI
    • Response Rate Limiting
    • Configuration Reference
    • Usage Metering
    • Role-Based Access Control
    • HTTP Redirects Reference
    • Latency Algorithm
    • Deployment Reference
    • Telemetry
    • Operations Reference
    • Transport Security (TLS)
    • Metrics Reference
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  1. Overview
  2. Getting Started

Getting Started

First steps: install, evaluate, and verify Nexus GSLB.

  • Tutorials & Examples

    This page contains step-by-step tutorials to help you get hands-on with Nexus GSLB.

  • Architecture Overview

    Pleiades is a DNS-based Global Server Load Balancer (GSLB). It answers A/AAAA queries and selects backend IPs using a health-aware, client-IP-aware load balancer. Configuration is stored in SQLite and managed via a REST API. Runtime state (health,…

  • Installation

    This guide explains how to install and run Nexus GSLB (gslbd) on Linux using: (a) the automated install script, (b) Docker / Docker Compose, or (c) a manual tarball install. Pre-built binaries for Linux and macOS (amd64/arm64) and Windows (amd64) are…

  • Getting Started

    This guide gets you from zero to a working DNS server in under 10 minutes. You will install the daemon, start it with a minimal config, and verify DNS responses using dig.

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