Knowledge Base | Cloud
Fundamentals: What Sets Containers Apart from Virtual Machines
Containers have fast become one of the most efficient ways of virtually deploying applications, offering more agility than a virtual machine (VM) can typically provide. Both containers and VMs are great tools for managing resources and application deployment, but what...
AWS EC2 Service Discovery with HAProxy
AWS Auto Scaling groups are a powerful tool for creating scaling plans for your application. They let you dynamically create a group of EC2 instances that will maintain a consistent and predictable level of service. HAProxy's Data Plane API adds a cloud-native method...
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. Single sign-on (SSO) is such a familiar convenience for companies that it's easy to forget how powerful it is. When employees...
Building Blocks of a Modern Proxy
A major outcome of IT/Ops evolution is realizing the importance of a reverse proxy, such as HAProxy, in achieving modern application delivery. This is the first post in a series about HAProxy's role in building a modern systems architecture that relies on cloud-native...
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[On-Demand Webinar] HAProxy Data Plane API: True Dynamic Configuration Management
Integrating HAProxy into automation tools, continuous-delivery pipelines, and service meshes just got a lot easier. We’ve introduced a new REST API that you can use to configure HAProxy fully at runtime and it’s called the Data Plane API. Tune into this webinar to...
Tracing Requests Through HAProxy with AWS X-Ray
HAProxy integrates with AWS X-Ray to give you the best observability across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including your load balancer. Read on to learn how. There is a trend to move away from monolithic applications towards microservices. Microservices...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 3
In this blog post, learn to use HAProxy, Keepalived, Terraform and Ansible to set up highly-available load balancing in AWS. In the third part of this series, we are again tackling how to implement a highly available architecture in AWS. In the first article, HAProxy...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 2
Placing HAProxy at the edge of your AWS infrastructure is possible without involving Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). In this article, we’ll discuss how. This blog post is part of a series. See Part 1 and Part 3. There is such a thing as too many layers. There’s a...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 1
This blog post is part of our AWS Best Practices series. See Part 2 and Part 3. There has been a constant stream of interest in running high-availability HAProxy configurations on Amazon. There are a few different approaches possible, and this is the first in a series...
