Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 14, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy provides active, passive, and agent health checks. HAProxy makes your web applications highly available by spreading requests across a pool of backend servers. If one or even several servers fail, clients can still use your app as long as there are...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 7, 2021 | NEWS, SECURITY, TECH
If you are using HAProxy 2.0 or newer, it is important that you update to the latest version. A vulnerability was found that makes it possible for an attacker to bypass the check for a duplicate HTTP Content-Length header, permitting a request smuggling attack or a...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 24, 2021 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
The HAProxy load balancer provides a set of APIs for configuring it programmatically. Although many people enjoy the simplicity of configuring their HAProxy load balancer by directly editing its configuration file, /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg, others want a way to...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 9, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you’ll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for...
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....
