Installation

Install HAProxy Enterprise on Docker

Using HAProxy Fusion?

If you’re using HAProxy Fusion, then see the HAProxy Fusion - Nodes topic instead.

The HAProxy Enterprise Docker image lets you run the load balancer as a container.

Install the HAProxy Enterprise Docker container Jump to heading

The haproxy-enterprise Docker image hosts HAProxy Enterprise and the HAProxy Data Plane API. Follow these steps to install it:

  1. Log into the hapee-registry.haproxy.com Docker registry using your HAProxy Enterprise license key as both the username and password. If you do not have a key, get one by registering and requesting a free trial of HAProxy Enterprise at https://www.haproxy.com/downloads/hapee-trial/.

    nix
    sudo docker login https://hapee-registry.haproxy.com
    nix
    sudo docker login https://hapee-registry.haproxy.com
  2. Pull the HAProxy Enterprise image.

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    sudo docker pull hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
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    sudo docker pull hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
  3. Create an HAProxy Enterprise configuration file (i.e. hapee-lb.cfg) that defines your load balancer settings.

    You can run a container temporarily, just to get the HAProxy Enterprise configuration file from it to use as a starting point.

    nix
    sudo docker run --rm -d --name hapee hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
    sudo docker cp hapee:/etc/hapee-2.9 ./
    sudo docker stop hapee
    cd hapee-2.9
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    sudo docker run --rm -d --name hapee hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
    sudo docker cp hapee:/etc/hapee-2.9 ./
    sudo docker stop hapee
    cd hapee-2.9
  4. Start the Docker container, referencing the directory containing your configuration file as a volume by using the -v flag.

    nix
    sudo docker run \
    --name hapee-2.9 \
    -d \
    -p 80:80 \
    -p 443:443 \
    -p 5555:5555 \
    -v $(pwd):/etc/hapee-2.9 \
    --restart=unless-stopped \
    hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
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    sudo docker run \
    --name hapee-2.9 \
    -d \
    -p 80:80 \
    -p 443:443 \
    -p 5555:5555 \
    -v $(pwd):/etc/hapee-2.9 \
    --restart=unless-stopped \
    hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1

Access the Data Plane API Jump to heading

The Data Plane API listens at port 5555. However, you must retrieve the Basic authentication credentials to access it.

  1. Use the following command to read the username and password from the Data Plane API configuration file:

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    sudo docker exec -it hapee-2.9 grep user: -A3 /etc/hapee-extras/dataplaneapi.yml
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    sudo docker exec -it hapee-2.9 grep user: -A3 /etc/hapee-extras/dataplaneapi.yml
    output
    yaml
    user:
    - insecure: true
    password: v7xkLr4Z4Qlc
    name: admin
    output
    yaml
    user:
    - insecure: true
    password: v7xkLr4Z4Qlc
    name: admin

    Then you can verify that the API is working by calling the info function. In the example below, we use the username and password that we retrieved during the last step:

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    curl -X GET --user admin:v7xkLr4Z4Qlc http://localhost:5555/v2/info
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    curl -X GET --user admin:v7xkLr4Z4Qlc http://localhost:5555/v2/info
    output
    json
    {"api":{"build_date":"2021-06-01T21:18:15.000Z","version":"v2.3.2-ee2 8fdcfba"},"system":{}}
    output
    json
    {"api":{"build_date":"2021-06-01T21:18:15.000Z","version":"v2.3.2-ee2 8fdcfba"},"system":{}}

Reload the services Jump to heading

When you change your hapee-lb.cfg configuration file, you will need to reload the service for the changes to take effect. We use s6-overlay to run HAProxy Enterprise and the HAProxy Data Plane API as services.

  1. Make sure that the following line is included in the global section of your HAProxy Enterprise configuration file. It ensures that you can perform a hitless reload, which means no traffic is dropped.

    haproxy
    global
    stats socket /var/run/hapee-2.9/hapee-lb.sock user hapee-lb group hapee mode 660 level admin expose-fd listeners
    haproxy
    global
    stats socket /var/run/hapee-2.9/hapee-lb.sock user hapee-lb group hapee mode 660 level admin expose-fd listeners
  2. Reload the HAProxy Enterprise process with this command:

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    sudo docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -2 /var/run/s6/services/haproxy
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    sudo docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -2 /var/run/s6/services/haproxy

    You can also perform a hard restart by using this command:

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    docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -t /var/run/s6/services/haproxy
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    docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -t /var/run/s6/services/haproxy

    To restart the Data Plane API, use this command:

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    sudo docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -t /var/run/s6/services/dataplaneapi
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    sudo docker exec hapee-2.9 s6-svc -t /var/run/s6/services/dataplaneapi

Installing with a custom Docker file Jump to heading

To install a modified HAProxy Enterprise environment, create a custom Docker file. Specify the desired HAProxy Enterprise base image as in the following example, which specifies version 2.9r1:

docker
FROM hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
docker
FROM hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1

Then add any further Dockerfile commands as needed.

The following example Dockerfile builds a HAProxy Enterprise version 2.9r1 image that includes a custom set of tools. The custom tool installation script, install_mytools-4.3.sh, must reside in the current directory.

docker
FROM hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
# install internal tools
WORKDIR /tmp
ARG mytools_version="4.3"
COPY install_mytools-"$mytools_version".sh .
RUN /tmp/install_mytools-"$mytools_version".sh
docker
FROM hapee-registry.haproxy.com/haproxy-enterprise:2.9r1
# install internal tools
WORKDIR /tmp
ARG mytools_version="4.3"
COPY install_mytools-"$mytools_version".sh .
RUN /tmp/install_mytools-"$mytools_version".sh

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