Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 14, 2020 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, SECURITY
HAProxy gives you an arsenal of sophisticated countermeasures including deny, tarpit, silent drop, reject, and shadowban to stop malicious users. There are two phases to stopping malicious users from abusing your website and online applications. Step one is detection,...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 31, 2020 | KUBERNETES, SECURITY, TECH
The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller integrates with cert-manager to provide Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates. When it comes to TLS in Kubernetes, the first thing to appreciate when you use the HAProxy Ingress Controller is that all traffic for all services...
Emeric Brun Emeric Brun | Sep 27, 2019 | SECURITY, TECH
PacketShield provides stateful packet filtering and protects your network against DDoS. Packet floods are DDoS attacks in which large numbers of packets are sent to a target with the goal of saturating the target’s resources. They can heavily impact the...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 30, 2019 | LUA, SECURITY, TECH
The HAProxy Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Lua module streamlines adding CORS to your APIs. What is CORS? Read on to learn more. It doesn’t matter whether you’re using Angular, React, Vue or simple, vanilla JavaScript. You’re guaranteed to need...
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...
