# Rancher platform newbie quesitons

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-platform-newbie-quesitons/3614>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-platform-newbie-quesitons/3614 "2016-08-03T07:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hugo](https://forums.suse.com/u/Hugo)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-platform-newbie-quesitons/3614/1 "2016-08-03T07:47:26Z")

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Hello floks,

I’m new to docker and rancher, and have some question on how to exploit this solution.  
I currently have a rancher standalone server with 3 docker nodes. Configuration seems fine.

I would like to use this platform to deploy some of our apps, our standard is pretty simple :

- apache2 proxy serving static files,
- tomcat with webapps,

My questions :

- as we need to map port 80 and 443 to the apache2 server, it means that with docker, I’ll have one big apache2 serer per hosts in order to serve _ALL_ application ? In this case how to load balance ? What about High Availibility ?

- For tomcat, is it a good practice to create one image per webapps ? (adding the war in that image)

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![demarant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/demarant/32/497_2.png) [@demarant](https://forums.suse.com/u/demarant)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-platform-newbie-quesitons/3614/2 "2016-08-03T07:54:31Z")

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@Hugo  
Have you looked at Rancher Load Balancer service?  
[http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/latest/en/cattle/adding-load-balancers/](http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/latest/en/cattle/adding-load-balancers/)