Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 20, 2020 | BASICS, KUBERNETES
You can use Helm to install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller into your Kubernetes cluster, making it easier to start routing traffic using the powerful HAProxy load balancer. Learn more by registering for our webinar: “HAProxy Skills Lab: Introduction...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 30, 2019 | BASICS, SECURITY, TECH
Use rate limiting in HAProxy to stop clients from making too many requests and promote fair usage of your services. Rate limiting in HAProxy stops a client from making too many requests during a window of time. You might have a policy that stipulates how many requests...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 15, 2019 | BASICS, SECURITY, SSL
The HAProxy load balancer provides high-performance SSL termination, allowing you to encrypt and decrypt traffic. You can quickly and easily enable SSL/TLS encryption for your applications by using HAProxy SSL termination. HAProxy is compiled with OpenSSL, which...
Adis Nezirović Adis Nezirović | May 24, 2019 | BASICS, LUA, TECH
Use Lua to add fetches, converters, actions, services and tasks to HAProxy. Did you know that HAProxy embeds the Lua scripting language, which you can use to add new functionality? HAProxy features an extremely powerful and flexible configuration language and gives...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | May 10, 2019 | BASICS, TECH
The HAProxy Stats page provides a near real-time feed of data about the state of your proxied services. In a previous blog post, Introduction to HAProxy Logging, you saw how to harness the power of HAProxy to improve observability into the state of your load...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Apr 5, 2019 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
The HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine filter enables you to extend HAProxy in any language without modifying its core codebase. Inspired by the possibilities? Read on to learn more. Imagine you’re living in the distant future and you’re stomping...
