Knowledge Base | Load Balancing/Routing
The History of HAProxy
Willy TarreauToday, HAProxy is the world's fastest and most widely used software load balancer. It's responsible for providing high availability, security, and observability to some of the world's highest trafficked websites. Many Site Reliability Engineers and Network/Systems...
HAProxy on Docker Swarm: Load Balancing and DNS Service Discovery
Michel MayenUse HAProxy to add routing, load balancing, and DNS service discovery to Docker Swarm. Docker Swarm lets you expand beyond hosting Docker containers on a single machine. It oversees a cluster of servers and manages which to deploy a container to, depending on each...
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[On Demand Webinar] HAProxy 2.0 – Q&A
Senad CausModern applications are shifting towards cloud-native architectures and container platforms like Kubernetes. That means that proxies and load balancers must be equipped to manage transient services, new communication protocols, and dynamic methods for discovering...
HAProxy Traffic Mirroring for Real-world Testing
Nick RamirezTraffic mirroring makes it possible to stream production traffic to a test or staging environment. Use the HAProxy Traffic Shadowing agent to enable mirroring. The HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE) lets you stream data to an external agent in real time...
HAProxy Layer 7 Retries and Chaos Engineering
Nick RamirezHAProxy 2.0 introduced layer 7 retries, which provides resilience against unreachable nodes, network latency, slow servers, and HTTP errors. HAProxy powers the uptime of organizations with even the largest traffic demands by giving them the flexibility and confidence...
Dissecting the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Zlatko BratkovicThe new HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides a high-performance ingress for your Kubernetes-hosted applications. Register for the on demand webinar "The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller for High-Performance Ingress". Containers allow cross-functional...
The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
Nick RamirezUse the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands. Sign up for the upcoming HAProxy 2.0 webinars Designing for high availability nearly always means having a strong proxying / load balancing layer. A proxy...
HAProxy 2.0 and Beyond
Daniel CorbettHAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments, while retaining its industry-leading performance and reliability. HAProxy 2.0 adds a powerful set of core features as...
Extending HAProxy with the Stream Processing Offload Engine
Christopher FauletThe 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...
Test Driving “Power of Two Random Choices” Load Balancing
Willy TarreauThe Power of Two Random Choices load-balancing algorithm has piqued some curiosity. In this blog post, we see how it stacks up against other modern-day algorithms available in HAProxy. Recently, I was asked twice about my opinion on supporting an algorithm known as...
