Sep 18, 2023
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By Tyler Charboneau
Internet protocols are the lifeblood of internet communication, powering important connections between servers, clients, and networking devices. These rules and standards also determine how data traverses the web. Without these protocols, internet traffic as we know it would be severely fragmented or even grind to a screeching halt. And without evolving protocol development, the web couldn’t properly support the applications driving massive traffic volumes worldwide (or vice versa).
Sep 7, 2023
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By Tyler Charboneau
Managing your load balancer instances is important while using HAProxy. You might encounter errors, need to apply configurations, or periodically upgrade HAProxy to a newer version (to name a few examples). As a result, reloading or restarting HAProxy is often the secret ingredient to restoring intended functionality. Whether you’re relatively inexperienced with HAProxy or you’re a grizzled veteran, understanding which method is best in a given situation is crucial.
Aug 24, 2023
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By Daniel Skrba
The curtain rose and fell on another spectacular Black Hat USA, the conference set against the backdrop of fabulous Las Vegas in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. We knew upon hitting the Strip that all the glamor and neon lights were just the preshow for the main event: innovation and the latest in cybersecurity. We couldn’t wait to show attendees and fellow vendors what we had to offer.
Aug 22, 2023
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By Sébastien Gross
HAProxy offers a powerful logging system that allows users to capture information about HTTP transactions. As part of that, logging headers provides insight into what's happening behind the scenes, such as when a web application firewall (WAF) blocks a request because of a problematic header. It can also be helpful when an application has trouble parsing a header, allowing you to review the logged headers to ensure that they conform to a specific format.
Aug 9, 2023
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By Iwan Price-Evans
In case you missed it, HAProxy Technologies recently put out a press release about our stunning leadership position in G2’s Summer 2023 Grid® Reports for load balancing. We’re incredibly proud of these results, which are a direct result of the hard work and dedication of HAProxy’s community developers and our enterprise product and support teams. Looking at the Momentum Grid® Report for Load Balancing, the gap between HAProxy and the rest is impossible to ignore.
Jul 27, 2023
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By HAProxy
Technology leadership and customer satisfaction drive top rankings in load balancing and security, with solutions available to demo at Black Hat USA.
Jul 27, 2023
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By Amina Mujkanovic
The Kubernetes networking landscape is shifting. The traditional Kubernetes Ingress approach is being complemented and, in some cases, replaced by a more powerful, flexible, and extensible standard: the Kubernetes Gateway API. Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for orchestrating and managing containerized applications. A key aspect of Kubernetes that's crucial for the functionality of these applications? Networking.
Jul 19, 2023
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By Tyler Charboneau
SysOps teams know how crucial observability is to maintaining around-the-clock infrastructure health. And while HAProxy already provides reliable logging and stats (for diagnostics and monitoring), what if you could supplement those with a real-time alerting system? That idea inspired our initial inclusion of mailers in HAProxy. Since then, users have been asking for deeper mailer customizability—and we’re thrilled to deliver that with Lua-based email alerts in HAProxy 2.8.
Jul 13, 2023
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By Daniel Skrba
TLS certificates are crucial for the secure flow of web traffic, but managing these digital certificates can pose a challenge. Using an ACME-based certificate authority like Let’s Encrypt can automate and simplify the management of issuing these certificates. Certificate management in HAProxy has steadily improved over the years, allowing it to become more flexible and load certificates without restarting.
Jul 5, 2023
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By Marko Juraga
We are proud to announce that we have released HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8, available on our GitHub page. This release follows the recent HAProxy 2.8 release and incorporates its changes, along with some improvements and changes specific to the API. HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8 adds new keywords focused on QUIC, OCSP stapling, and tuning options that allow you to customize your HAProxy process using the HTTP REST API programmatically.
Jan 23, 2023
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By HAProxy
Presented by Sanjay Singh & Sri Ram Bathina (LinkedIn) at HAProxyConf 2022. In this talk, you will learn about LinkedIn's experiments with HAProxy in the past, their current HAProxy use cases, and the plan for replacing the existing stack with HAProxy. You will also see LinkedIn's evaluation process, why HAProxy came out as a winner, and how they are planning to leverage HAProxy’s features to modernize their traffic stack which will make them better prepared for the future.
Jan 19, 2023
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By HAProxy
Presented by Willy Tarreau (HAProxy) at HAProxyConf 2022. Discover the power of HAProxy in this must-watch talk by Willy Tarreau, the developer of the original HAProxy project. Learn how HAProxy has set new world records in performance and scalability and discover how its cutting-edge technology can help you save on costs and energy consumption. With climate change at the forefront of our minds, it's more important than ever to find ways to conserve energy in every aspect of our lives. Join Willy as he explores real-life examples of energy-efficient load balancing.
Dec 16, 2022
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By HAProxy
HAProxy version 2.7 is now available! This version of the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer brings improvements to scalability, performance, and ease of use. Register for this webinar to learn about the newest features and updates.
Dec 14, 2022
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By HAProxy
Recap of HAProxyConf in Paris, November 8-9 2022. HAProxyConf is the user conference for the highly-active community that has made HAProxy the world’s fastest and most widely deployed software load balancer.
Jun 15, 2022
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By HAProxy
The HAProxy Data Plane API now has the ability to get backends from AWS tags and Consul, upload SSL certificates, and other features that make it fit into modern configurations. In this presentation we will provide a brief introduction to the HAProxy Data Plane API and cover some of these new features in more depth.
Jun 15, 2022
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By HAProxy
There’s no shortage of articles on CI/CD and how to run a configuration validation utility before reloading or restarting a service, but this type of validation is not the same as acceptance testing. Furthermore, these validations don’t always give you (or your leadership team) the confidence to allow you to make big changes to your Production Infrastructure during normal business hours, often preferring to err on the side of caution and scheduling a maintenance window when you might prefer to be in bed.
Sep 29, 2020
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By HAProxy
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 traveling to your Kubernetes cluster passes through HAProxy. Requests are then routed towards the appropriate backend services depending on metadata in the request, such as the Host header. So, by enabling TLS in your ingress controller, you’re adding secure communication to all of your services at once. HAProxy is known for its advanced support of the important performance-oriented features available in TLS.
Sep 2, 2020
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By HAProxy
Performance has never been more important than in a cloud-native world. Cloud-hosted resources cost money and a slow-loading application can cause a suboptimal ROI. Have you taken the time to tune your Kubernetes ingress controller and proxy? Many organizations don't until it's absolutely necessary, and most users will typically run a default, out-of-the-box configuration. In this demo, we benchmark five popular ingress controllers and put them head-to-head against each other with their default configurations.
Aug 14, 2020
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By HAProxy
Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, revamps the way teams manage their Kubernetes resources and allows them to deploy applications in a consistent and reliable way. It is a valuable tool in a continuous delivery pipeline, with support for quick updates and rollbacks. At HAProxy Technologies, we offer Helm as the preferred method for installing the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and we’ll show you how to customize that installation to fit your use case.
May 28, 2020
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By HAProxy
This presentation will describe how Go and other developers can integrate with HAProxy via the HAProxy Data Plane API and it’s packages. We will explain the motivation behind this new product and provide an overview of how we used the OpenAPI specification, including how models and server stubs are generated using go-swagger. We will delve deeper with describing client-native and config-parser packages and explain how and when to use them, by showing how we use them in our HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. We will also briefly touch on how you can contribute to these projects.
Aug 18, 2020
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By HAProxy
This whitepaper is designed for anyone evaluating the pros and cons of different types of application delivery controllers for web applications and services. The Software Versus Appliance Load Balancers whitepaper will give you basic definitions for different types of load balancers. It will also provide you with guidance on how to choose the load balancer that best meets the application delivery requirements for your applications.
Aug 18, 2020
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By HAProxy
Your pods running in Kubernetes need to be exposed to the outside world. With the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, you can route traffic to them faster, more reliably, and with improved security compared to any other ingress controller.
Aug 1, 2020
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By HAProxy
This whitepaper is designed for anyone responsible for ensuring the quality of service and business continuity for web applications and services. The All About Load Balancing whitepaper will give you the keys to a comprehensive load balancing strategy. It will also provide you with guidance on how to tune your architecture based on your requirements or constraints.
Aug 1, 2020
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By HAProxy
HAProxy gives you the building blocks to create a strong, layered defense against DDoS, malicious bot traffic, vulnerability scanners and more.
Jul 1, 2020
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By HAProxy
One of the biggest challenges for organizations that have adopted microservice architecture is the lack of architectural, operational, and organizational standardization. After splitting a monolithic application or building a microservice ecosystem from scratch, many engineers are left wondering what's next. In this practical book, author Susan Fowler presents a set of microservice standards in depth, drawing from her experience standardizing over a thousand microservices at Uber. You'll learn how to design microservices that are stable, reliable, scalable, fault tolerant, performant, monitored, documented, and prepared for any catastrophe.
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We are the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Organizations rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, observability, and security at any scale and in any environment.
HAProxy One is an industry-first end-to-end application delivery platform designed to simplify and secure modern application architectures. It features a suite of products consisting of application delivery software, appliances and turnkey services managed and observed through a unified control plane. It provides load balancing, application acceleration, CDN, DDoS protection, bot management, and WAF capabilities.
HAProxy Powers the Uptime of the Cloud Era:
- Load Balancing: Load balance your services at any scale and in any environment with our feature-rich application delivery controllers.
- High Availability: Deliver optimal user experiences regardless of volume of visitors, number of hits, or complexity of request.
- Application Acceleration: High performance SSL offloading, advanced timings, high performance lookup maps, HTTP compression, device detection and HTTP routing.
- Administration: Utilize HAProxy’s RESTful Data Plane API and Runtime API to manipulate your load balancer’s configuration or to drain traffic. Make changes dynamically without risking impact to other services.
- Security: Receive the benefits of SSL with less hardware, reduce the number of services exposed to the Internet, stop DDoS and Brute Force attacks, detect and block SQL/XSS attacks, ensure protocol compliance and identify intrusions with our advanced logging.
- Microservices: HAProxy is at the core of application delivery for some of the largest and most complex microservices architectures in the world and constantly releases new features to support these dynamic environments.
Powering the future of secure application delivery.