Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 14, 2021 | KUBERNETES, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Run your HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller in External mode to reduce network hops and latency. Traditionally, you would run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a pod inside your Kubernetes cluster. As a pod, it has access to other pods because...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | May 3, 2021 | KUBERNETES, NEWS
We’re proud to announce the release version 1.6 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This version provides the ability to add raw configuration snippets to HAProxy frontends, allows for ACL/Map files to be managed through a ConfigMap, and enables...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 26, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE
One of the greatest strengths of containers is the ability to spin more of them up quickly. As the volume of traffic to your application increases, you can create more application containers on the fly to handle it, in almost no time at all. Kubernetes ships with...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 19, 2021 | KUBERNETES, MICROSERVICES, SERVICE DISCOVERY
Many of you use HashiCorp Consul for service discovery. It makes connecting one backend application or service to another easy: Your Consul servers store a catalog of addresses to all of your services; when an application within the network wants to discover where a...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | Feb 19, 2021 | KUBERNETES, OBSERVABILITY
The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller publishes two sets of logs: the ingress controller logs and the HAProxy access logs. After you install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, logging jumps to mind as one of the first features to configure. Logs...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | Jan 21, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY
We’ve released version 1.5 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This version unlocks access to the raw HAProxy configuration language for power users to gain more control. You can also enable mutual TLS authentication between the ingress controller and...
