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Introduction to HAProxy Maps
An HAProxy map file stores key-value pairs and is the starting point for some inventive behavior. Read on to learn more. Dictionaries. Maps. Hashes. Associative arrays. Can you imagine life without these wonderful key-value data structures? The mad, dystopian world it...
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HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 2
Placing HAProxy at the edge of your AWS infrastructure is possible without involving Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). In this article, we’ll discuss how. There is such a thing as too many layers. There’s a restaurant in town that serves the most outrageously layered...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]
An API gateway is a layer of software between the frontend UI and backend services that routes requests intelligently. Read on to learn how HAProxy Enterprise Edition excels as an API gateway. “Danger! Avalanche Area” is a sign you’ll see when you drive through some...
Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
HTTP 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...
Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
When IT pros add load balancers into their infrastructure, of course they’re looking for the ability to scale out their websites and services, get better availability, and gain more restful nights knowing that their critical services are no longer single points of...
Hitless Reloads with HAProxy – HOWTO
Our R&D department published a well-received blog post titled “Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!”. In it, we explained why some established connections could be dropped during reloads under high utilization, and how the problem has been solved in...
Let’s Encrypt (ACMEv2) for HAProxy
HAProxy Technologies is proud to announce the availability of an integrated Let’s Encrypt ACMEv2 Lua client for HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise Edition (HAPEE). HAPEE comes bundled with Lua support in a precompiled binary conveniently distributed using your Linux...
What’s New in HAProxy Enterprise Edition 1.8r1
We are very excited to announce the release of HAProxy Enterprise Edition 1.8r1, which is built on top of the monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 with additional enterprise enhancements that help to manage and secure modern applications across the full spectrum...
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[On Demand Webinar] What’s New in HAProxy Enterprise Edition 1.8r1
HAProxy Enterprise Edition 1.8r1 contains a number of powerful improvements in performance and application acceleration, significant improvements in dynamic capabilities for cloud and microservices environments, and an enterprise suite of add-ons that help enterprises...
HAProxy and Consul with DNS for Service Discovery
In this blog post we will show you a zero-touch method for integrating HAProxy with Consul by using DNS for service discovery available in HAProxy 1.8. HAProxy is the most widely used software load balancer in the world, well known for being extremely fast and...
[On Demand Webinar] DDoS Attack and Bot Protection with HAProxy Enterprise Edition: Defending Your Application Against Ever-increasing Threats
We read about DDoS attacks and bot threats causing companies millions in lost revenues and battered reputations almost every day. By leveraging an extremely efficient and innovative design, including extensive ACL and Stick Table tracking systems, HAProxy Enterprise...
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[Conference] HashiConf ’18
San Francisco, US
October 22-24, 2018 San Francisco, US