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HAProxy 1.9 Has Arrived
Daniel CorbettHAProxy Technologies is proud to announce the release of HAProxy 1.9. This release brings a native HTTP representation (HTX) powering end-to-end HTTP/2 support and paving the way for future innovations such as HTTP/3 (QUIC). It also contains improvements to buffers...
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Building a Service Mesh with HAProxy and Consul
Baptiste Assmann and Nick RamirezHashiCorp added a service mesh feature to Consul, its service-discovery and distributed storage tool. In this post, you'll see how HAProxy is the perfect fit as a data plane for this architecture. HAProxy is no stranger to the service mesh scene. Its high performance,...
Bot Protection with HAProxy
Chad LavoieHAProxy is a high-performance load balancer that provides advanced defense capabilities for detecting and protecting against malicious bot traffic to your website. Combining its unique ACL, map, and stick table systems with its powerful configuration language allows...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
Senad CausHTTP requests are stateless by design. So how do you "remember" clients so that you can persist them to a server? Or how do you recognize when a client's behavior seems malicious? HAProxy Enterprise provides a unique feature for capturing and storing client activity...
Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
Chad LavoieHAProxy’s high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world’s top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application with requests or connections, and in this post we will show you how...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and Blocking Malicious Traffic
Senad CausAs requests stream into your HAProxy Enterprise load balancer, adding rules to route them to the right place, redirect them to other pages, or outright deny them is what puts you in control of your traffic. Access Control Lists (ACLs) give you this power and they are...
The Four Essential Sections of an HAProxy Configuration
Chad LavoieAn HAProxy configuration file guides the behavior of your HAProxy load balancer. In this post, we demonstrate its four most essential sections. There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global, defaults, frontend, and backend. These...
Introduction to HAProxy Maps
Chad LavoieAn HAProxy map file stores key-value pairs and is the starting point for some inventive behavior including dynamic rate limiting and blue-green deployments. Dictionaries. Maps. Hashes. Associative arrays. Can you imagine life without these wonderful key-value data...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 2
Dinko KorunicPlacing HAProxy at the edge of your AWS infrastructure is possible without involving Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). In this article, we’ll discuss how. This blog post is part of a series. See Part 1 here. There is such a thing as too many layers. There’s a restaurant...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]
Baptiste AssmannAn API gateway handles load balancing, security, rate limiting, monitoring, and other cross-cutting concerns for API services. Read on to learn how HAProxy Enterprise excels as an API gateway. “Danger! Avalanche Area” is a sign you’ll see when you drive through some...
Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
Chad LavoieHTTP requests are stateless by design. However, this raises some questions regarding how to track user activities, including malicious ones, across requests so that you can collect metrics, block users, and make other decisions based on state. The only way to track...
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