Your Starter Guide to Using the HAProxy Lua Event Framework
In this article, we’ll take you on a quick tour of the new Lua event framework shipped with HAProxy 2.8—plus demonstrate how Lua helps you further customize HAProxy’s behavior.
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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.
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.
How to Enable Health Checks in HAProxy (Guide)
HAProxy provides three types of health checks: active health checks, passive health checks and agent health checks. In this blog, we will learn about each one.
Rate Limiting with the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Learned how to fine tune your HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller’s configuration to leverage powerful annotations to protect your services and APIs.
Testing Your HAProxy Configuration (Easy to Follow Guide)
Learn how to test your HAProxy Configuration. Properly testing your HAProxy configuration file is a simple yet crucial part of administering your load balancer.
How to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu (In a Few Simple Steps)
In this post, you will learn how to install the open-source edition of HAProxy on Ubuntu, one of the most popular and powerful operating systems around.
How to Run HAProxy With Docker (In-Depth Guide)
In this blog post, you’ll learn why you might consider running HAProxy inside a Docker container and what the ramifications could be.
AWS EC2 Service Discovery With HAProxy (Step by Step Guide)
In this blog post, you will learn how to enable service discovery for AWS EC2 instances using HAProxy and the HAProxy Data Plane API.
HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file.
Run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Outside of Your Kubernetes Cluster
In this blog post, you'll learn how to run our Kubernetes Ingress Controller externally to your Kubernetes cluster, which obviates the need for running another load balancer in front.