Achieving Website High Availability
When someone says a website is available, they mean that they can access that website. The application they're trying to reach is up and working properly. High availability means that the website is up most of the time throughout the year. Companies can even put a...
What Is Load Balancing
Load balancing means splitting up network traffic so that you can distribute it evenly across a group of backend servers. For example, if you run two web servers, both hosting a copy of the same website, then you can balance the traffic across them, sending half to...
December/2021 – CVE-2021-44228: Log4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation
This post will be updated over the next several days. Recently, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Log4J library. This vulnerability, which is tracked in CVE-2021-44228, dubbed Log4Shell, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on...
Announcing HAProxy 2.5
Register for our live webinar to learn more about this release. HAProxy 2.5 is now available! It adds improvements to a number of areas including better usability around setting variables, more descriptive error reporting and logging, and enhanced HTTP and WebSocket...
HAProxy 2.5 Feature Roundup
HAProxy 2.5 is now available! Join this session to learn about the changes. This version of HAProxy improves a number of features, including: full support for managing servers dynamically using the Runtime API SSL/TLS enhancements, including support for OpenSSL 3.0...
Willy Tarreau on HAProxy at Its 20-Year Anniversary
Willy Tarreau, the founder of the HAProxy load balancer, 20 years past its initial, open source release, still guides the project, often submitting code patches and writing long and meticulous replies on the community forum. Over the years, he has been joined by a...
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.4
Version 2.4 improves its e2e tests, revamps how logging in the HAProxy Data Plane API works, adds support for namespace filtering in Consul Service Discovery, improves runtime capabilities for maps and ACLs, adds server-template support and adds log_targets to global...
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.7
We’re proud to announce the release of version 1.7 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller! In this release, we added support for custom resource definitions that cover most of the configuration settings. Definitions are available for the global, defaults and...
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Reaches 10 Million Community Downloads
It's almost wild how two years have passed already since we first announced the HAProxy Ingress Controller for Kubernetes. Note that this project is different from the jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress HAProxy ingress controller project on GitHub. Our project is also an...
How to Enable Health Checks in HAProxy
HAProxy provides active, passive, and agent health checks. HAProxy makes your web applications highly available by spreading requests across a pool of backend servers. If one or even several servers fail, clients can still use your app as long as there are...
Rate Limiting with the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Add IP-by-IP rate limiting to the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. DDoS (distributed denial of service) events occur when an attacker or group of attackers flood your application or API with disruptive traffic, hoping to exhaust its resources and prevent...
Events
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[Conference] KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 is a hybrid event (in-person and virtual) on October 13-15th, that will gather adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities. The in-person event will be held in Los Angeles, CA. If...
