Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 14, 2022 | DEVOPS, KUBERNETES
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides custom resources named Backend, Defaults, and Global that let you manage ingress controller settings more efficiently. To start using them right away, check the documentation for steps and examples. In this blog post,...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | May 31, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, NEWS
HAProxy 2.6 is now available! As always, the community behind HAProxy made it possible to bring the enhancements in this release. Whether developing new functionality, fixing issues, writing documentation, QA testing, hosting CI environments, or submitting bug...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | May 17, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the protocol that defines the language browsers use to communicate with web servers, is stateless, meaning that after you make a web request and a server sends back a response, no memory of that interaction remains. To make anything...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 7, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 15, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the...
