Announcing HAProxy 2.6
As always, the community behind HAProxy made it possible to bring the enhancements in HAProxy 2.6 release. Read on for a list of changes in HAProxy 2.6.
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2 Ways to Enable Sticky Sessions in HAProxy (Guide)
In this blog post, you will learn how HAProxy supports sticky sessions. You can choose to implement them either with a cookie or with the user’s IP address.
Use Your Load Balancer to Monitor Application Health
In this blog post, you’ll learn about several metrics that stand out as particularly useful for monitoring the health of your applications when they’re load balanced by HAProxy.
How Load Balancing Improves the Performance of Your Applications
In this blog post, you'll learn how load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance.
Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers & Never Reload HAProxy
Let’s consider one of HAProxy’s newest features, dynamic servers, which lets you add and remove servers from HAProxy’s load balancing list on-the-fly without ever reloading the process.
What is Load Balancing & How it Works (Complete Breakdown)
Load balancing is the distribution of network traffic between backend servers to ensure high availability and performance. Here's everything you should know.
How to Enable Health Checks in HAProxy (Guide)
HAProxy provides three types of health checks: active health checks, passive health checks and agent health checks. In this blog, we will learn about each one.
September/2021–CVE-2021-40346: Duplicate ‘Content-Length’ Header Fixed
If you use HAProxy 2.0 or up, you must update to the latest version. A vulnerability was found that makes it possible for an attacker to...
The HAProxy APIs (What You Should Know)
In this blog post, you will learn more about HAProxy APIs and how you can manage your HAProxy configuration without editing its configuration file by hand.
How to Run HAProxy With Docker (In-Depth Guide)
In this blog post, you’ll learn why you might consider running HAProxy inside a Docker container and what the ramifications could be.
HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file.
Run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Outside of Your Kubernetes Cluster
In this blog post, you'll learn how to run our Kubernetes Ingress Controller externally to your Kubernetes cluster, which obviates the need for running another load balancer in front.