Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Sep 8, 2021 | KUBERNETES, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, SECURITY
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 it from...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Aug 31, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Learn how to test your HAProxy Configuration. Properly testing your HAProxy configuration file is a simple, yet crucial part of administering your load balancer. Remembering to run one simple command after making a change to your configuration file can save you from...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Aug 18, 2021 | BASICS, TECH
Learn how to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 is a great choice for installing your HAProxy software load balancer. It’s a free Linux operating system that’s fast, secure, and best of all, it’s easy to use. One of the features...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Jul 26, 2021 | CLOUD, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
AWS Auto Scaling groups are a powerful tool for creating scaling plans for your application. They let you dynamically create a group of EC2 instances that will maintain a consistent and predictable level of service. HAProxy’s Data Plane API adds a cloud-native...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | May 24, 2021 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY, TECH
HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers and the services they proxy, but to get the most from this data, you need a way to visualize it. InfluxData’s InfluxDB suite of applications takes...
