Announcing HAProxy 3.2
HAProxy 3.2 gives you more of what matters most: exceptional performance and efficiency, best-in-class SSL/TLS, deep observability, and flexible control over your traffic.
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Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 17.0
HAProxy ALOHA 17.0 introduces the new UDP Module and extends network management to the Data Plane API, a new API-based approach to network configuration.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.1
HAProxy Enterprise 3.1 delivers a brand new ADFSPIP Module and enhancements to the HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module, CAPTCHA Module, Global Profiling Engine, and more!
Reviewing Every New Feature in HAProxy 3.1
HAProxy 3.1 makes significant gains in performance and usability, with better capabilities for troubleshooting. Our blog post explores all the updates.
Lasting Impressions and Technical Tidbits From AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS re:Invent 2024 has officially wrapped up, but not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Here are some key takeaways from our five days spent with AWS and app delivery enthusiasts.
Announcing HAProxy 3.1
HAProxy 3.1 brings improvements to observability, reliability, performance, and flexibility.
KubeCon NA 2024: Service Discovery, Security, and AI—Oh My!
AI Gateway
API Gateway
Event
Kubernetes
Load Balancing / Routing
Products
Security
Service Discovery
Bots
Though KubeCon North America 2024 has officially come to a close, the CNCF's flagship event has left us buzzing with residual excitement. Here's what we've learned throughout those four days.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.0
HAProxy Enterprise 3.0 extends HAProxy Enterprise’s legendary performance and flexibility and builds upon its cornerstone features.
Nearly 90% of our AI crawler traffic is from TikTok parent ByteDance – lessons learned
TikTok’s web scraper, Bytespider, is reportedly aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We also noticed this while reviewing bot management analytics. Here's what we've learned.
Announcing HAProxy Fusion 1.3
Product Release
Application Monitoring
Kubernetes
Load Balancing / Routing
Observability
Performance
Security
Service Discovery
HAProxy Fusion 1.3 is now available! New custom dashboards, high-performance Kubernetes service discovery, and optimized workflows bolster HAProxy Fusion's observability and flexibility.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0
Following the recent HAProxy 3.0 release, we're proud to announce that we've released HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0, which is available on our GitHub page.
Easily Remove Existing HAProxy Connections Made via Client Authentication
HAProxy Enterprise lets you immediately drop connections and remove the client if their certificate is revoked. Here's how to strengthen security without disrupting other users and customers.
Zero-trust mTLS automation with HAProxy and SPIFFE/SPIRE
Securing traffic between systems is critical. Follow along as we explain how to use SPIFFE and SPIRE to automatically generate and renew identities that include mTLS certificates.
How to Achieve Ultimate Freedom With Your Load Balancer
Learn why flexibility is key in modern tech stacks, how a flexible load balancer can help, and how HAProxy's unique approach gives you more freedom.
Load Balancing RADIUS With HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module
HAProxy Enterprise now supports RADIUS load balancing with the new HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module. We'll outline the challenges with implementing RADIUS load balancing and how to solve them.
How to Reliably Block AI Crawlers Using HAProxy Enterprise
AI crawlers from large language model (LLM) companies often ignore the contents of robots.txt and crawl your site. If blocking AI crawlers is your goal, HAProxy Enterprise is the answer. Here's how.
Create an HAProxy AI gateway to control LLM costs, security, and privacy
The introduction of ChatGPT caused sharply increased interest in large language models (LLMs). These AI apps also have unique deliverability concerns. Here's how an HAProxy AI gateway can help.
Scalable AWS Load Balancing and Security With HAProxy Fusion
Read highlights from Jakub Suchy's talk describing how HAProxy Fusion enhances both scalability and security for applications, including Kubernetes applications, on AWS.
Reviewing every new feature in HAProxy 3.0
HAProxy 3.0 brings many improvements to simplicity, security, reliability, flexibility, and more. We'll dive into what’s new with detailed examples. It’s a long list, so get cozy and bring a snack!
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0 is now available. In this release, we've added TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs) to improve mapping, structuring, and validation for TCP services.
Announcing HAProxy 3.0
HAProxy 3.0 maintains its edge over alternatives with best-in-class load balancing. Ready to upgrade? Here’s how to get started.
Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 16
With HAProxy ALOHA 16 comes our next-generation WAF, new load balancing algorithms, upgraded Linux kernel to 6.1, and better isolation of admin services.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.9
Introducing our next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF and HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module for unmatched security, performance, and reliability in a simple package.
HAProxy is Resilient to the HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood
Our implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol can effectively handle the CONTINUATION Flood.
Software load balancers vs appliances: better performance & consistency with HAProxy
Different load balancer form factors don't always perform nor repackage well. Learn how HAProxy's unique software-first approach addresses common pain points when choosing the right form factor.
Web App Security vs. API Security: Unified Approaches Reign Supreme
While there are core differences between web apps and APIs, a unified security strategy is crucial. In this blog, we'll discuss why both types of security appear different yet are inherently linked.
Scalable Load Balancing & Security Made Simple at AWS re:Invent 2023
Watch our Lightning Talk at AWS re:Invent 2023 on how HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise enable simple and scalable load balancing and security on AWS.
Announcing HAProxy 2.9
HAProxy 2.9 is faster, more flexible, and more observable than ever before. Ready to upgrade? Here’s how to get started.
KubeCon NA 2023: Celebrating Innovation and the K8s Community
The sun has officially set on KubeCon North America 2023, but the CNCF's flagship event has left a lasting impression on us. Here's what we observed, what we talked about, and what resonated.
How to Extract Insightful Data From Proxy Protocol Packets
In this guide, we’ll explain why connection data matters. Next, we'll cover how the PROXY protocol works, how to use the TShark analyzer to capture and inspect packets and view the extraction results.
HAProxy is Not Affected by the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack (CVE-2023-44487)
CVE-2023-44487 found in the HTTP/2 protocol could allow a DoS attack against web servers, reverse proxies, or other software. HAProxy products are unaffected, but we're monitoring the situation.
HAProxy's growth continues with rave reviews and powerful capabilities
The G2 Fall 2023 Reports are in! HAProxy's acclaim across multiple categories, market levels, and global segments has risen. Here's what users are saying about their HAProxy use cases.
Your Comprehensive Guide to HAProxy Protocol Support
Modern load balancers need broad internet protocol support. We’ll outline HAProxy's product-specific protocol support, highlight core features, and share handy use cases.
How to Enable QUIC Load Balancing on HAProxy
In this blog post, we outline the steps to get started and the reasons why users are choosing to serve applications using HTTP/3 over QUIC.
Fundamentals: What is an API Gateway?
When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean?
Protect servers with HAProxy connection limits & queues
In this blog post, we show how you can use HAProxy connection limits and queues to protect your servers when load balancing heavy amounts of traffic.
HTTP Keep-Alive, Pipelining, Multiplexing & Connection Pooling
In this blog post, you will learn more about persistent TCP connections in an HTTP world and the various ways in which HAProxy supports it.
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Proxy Mode (Understanding the Difference)
With HAProxy you can switch between proxying traffic at layer 4 (TCP) or layer 7 (HTTP). This blog post describes the features available to you in each mode.
HAProxy Enterprise Offers SAML-based Single Sign-On
HAProxy Enterprise handles SAML single sign-on for your applications and integrates with identity providers like Azure Active Directory.
Get to know the HAProxy process manager
In this blog post, you will find out more about the HAProxy Process Manager, which allows you to start external programs that are hosted under HAProxy.
Load Balancing PHP-FPM With HAProxy & FastCGI
This blog post covers how you can use HAProxy and the FastCGI protocol to ensure fast, secure, and observable load balancing of your PHP-FPM applications.
Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection With HAProxy
HAProxy's high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world's top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application w
