Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 5, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file. If you’re new to using the HAProxy load balancer, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to configure HAProxy for basic load balancing....
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 14, 2021 | KUBERNETES, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Run your HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller in External mode to reduce network hops and latency. Traditionally, you would run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a pod inside your Kubernetes cluster. As a pod, it has access to other pods because...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 4, 2021 | MICROSERVICES, SERVICE DISCOVERY, TECH
HAProxy with the HAProxy Data Plane API can integrate with Consul to enable service discovery for your load balancer configuration. Many Ops team professionals rank HAProxy as their favorite load balancer because it adds high availability, security and...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 26, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE
This blog post describes how to implement autoscaling of your application pods using KEDA and the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Since it was published, a new feature has been added to the ingress controller that lets you autoscale the number of ingress...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 19, 2021 | KUBERNETES, MICROSERVICES, SERVICE DISCOVERY
Many of you use HashiCorp Consul for service discovery. It makes connecting one backend application or service to another easy: Your Consul servers store a catalog of addresses to all of your services; when an application within the network wants to discover where a...
