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Get to Know the HAProxy Process Manager
The HAProxy Process Manager allows you to start external programs that are managed under HAProxy. Not everything is compiled directly into HAProxy's C code. Some components are written using other programming languages and run alongside the load balancer. These...
Use Helm to Install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
You can use Helm to install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller into your Kubernetes cluster, making it easier to start routing traffic using the powerful HAProxy load balancer. Learn more by registering for our webinar: "HAProxy Skills Lab: Introduction to...
HAProxy Rate Limiting: Four Examples
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...
HAProxy SSL Termination
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...
5 Ways to Extend HAProxy with Lua
Use Lua to add fetches, converters, actions, services and tasks to HAProxy. Did you know that HAProxy embeds the Lua scripting language, which you can use to add new functionality? HAProxy features an extremely powerful and flexible configuration language and gives...
Exploring the HAProxy Stats Page
The HAProxy Stats page provides a near real-time feed of data about the state of your proxied services. In a previous blog post, Introduction to HAProxy Logging, you saw how to harness the power of HAProxy to improve observability into the state of your load...
Extending HAProxy with the Stream Processing Offload Engine
The HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine filter enables you to extend HAProxy in any language without modifying its core codebase. Inspired by the possibilities? Read on to learn more. Imagine you're living in the distant future and you're stomping around town in...
Introduction to HAProxy Logging
When it comes to operationalizing your log data, HAProxy provides a wealth of information. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to set up HAProxy logging, target a Syslog server, understand the log fields, and suggest some helpful tools for parsing log files. [On...
The Four Essential Sections of an HAProxy Configuration
An HAProxy configuration file guides the behavior of your HAProxy load balancer. In this post, we demonstrate its four most essential sections. There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global, defaults, frontend, and backend. These...
Introduction to HAProxy Maps
An HAProxy map file stores key-value pairs and is the starting point for some inventive behavior including dynamic rate limiting and blue-green deployments. Dictionaries. Maps. Hashes. Associative arrays. Can you imagine life without these wonderful key-value data...
