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...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Aug 31, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Learn how to test your HAProxy Configuration. Properly testing your HAProxy configuration file is a simple, yet crucial part of administering your load balancer. Remembering to run one simple command after making a change to your configuration file can save you from...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Aug 18, 2021 | BASICS, TECH
Learn how to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 is a great choice for installing your HAProxy software load balancer. It’s a free Linux operating system that’s fast, secure, and best of all, it’s easy to use. One of the features...
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....
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | May 24, 2021 | BASICS, OBSERVABILITY, TECH
HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers and the services they proxy, but to get the most from this data, you need a way to visualize it. InfluxData’s InfluxDB suite of applications takes...
