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
One of the greatest strengths of containers is the ability to spin more of them up quickly. As the volume of traffic to your application increases, you can create more application containers on the fly to handle it, in almost no time at all. Kubernetes ships with...
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...
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Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 19, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, SECURITY
HAProxy acts as an API gateway in front of your application servers, providing cross-cutting security. Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3...
