Announcing HAProxy 2.6
As always, the community behind HAProxy made it possible to bring the enhancements in HAProxy 2.6 release. Read on for a list of changes in HAProxy 2.6.
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Use the Proxy Protocol to Preserve a Client’s IP Address
In this blog post, you’ll learn how the Proxy Protocol preserves a client’s IP address when that client’s connection passes through a proxy.
2 Ways to Enable Sticky Sessions in HAProxy (Guide)
In this blog post, you will learn how HAProxy supports sticky sessions. You can choose to implement them either with a cookie or with the user’s IP address.
April/2022 – CVE-2022-22965: Spring4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation
Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Java Spring Core library. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems.
Use Your Load Balancer to Monitor Application Health
In this blog post, you’ll learn about several metrics that stand out as particularly useful for monitoring the health of your applications when they’re load balanced by HAProxy.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.5
We focused on covering more HAProxy keywords, making the API a full-fledged way to configure HAProxy. In that area, version 2.5 brings a lot of improvements.
How Load Balancing Improves the Performance of Your Applications
In this blog post, you'll learn how load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance.
Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers & Never Reload HAProxy
Let’s consider one of HAProxy’s newest features, dynamic servers, which lets you add and remove servers from HAProxy’s load balancing list on-the-fly without ever reloading the process.
What is Load Balancing & How it Works (Complete Breakdown)
Load balancing is the distribution of network traffic between backend servers to ensure high availability and performance. Here's everything you should know.
December/2021 – CVE-2021-44228: Log4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation
Vulnerability which is tracked in CVE-2021-44228, dubbed Log4Shell, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems.
Announcing HAProxy 2.5
We are announcing HAProxy 2.5! In this blog post, you will find a full list of improvements included in this version.
Willy Tarreau on HAProxy at Its 20 Year Anniversary (Interview)
In this interview, Willy describes his views on the success of the project, and how it grew over the years.