Core concepts

Get an overview of how the configuration file is composed.

Use ACLs statements to control traffic and transform messages.

Define server pools to service incoming requests.

Converters transform the value of a fetch.

Set inheritable directive defaults for other sections.

Fetch methods extract information from requests.

Accept incoming connections and forward them to defined backends.

Define process-level directives and global configuration settings.

Map keys to values to simplify complicated configuration files.

Store data about traffic as it passes through the load balancer.

Learn how variables let you store pieces of data.