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Dive into the world of open source HAProxy with configurations, tutorials, and best practices. As a core component of our Layer 7 solution, learn to master ACL rules, reverse proxy, SSL termination, and advanced features like rate limiting.
Tom Inglis-Starck
How can I load balance UDP with open source HAProxy?
UDP is a connectionless protocol, meaning it doesn't establish a formal connection or 'handshake' before sending data...
HAProxy
Open source
Integrations
Joe Robinson
When is an ACL not an ACL? When it's an HAProxy ACL...
If you're from a network background or are of a certain age (or both!), you will have come across Access Control Lists or ACLs...
HAProxy
Layer 7
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
HAProxy
Integrations
Security
Dave Saunders
Extending the ModSecurity WAF, with Denial Of Service protection — using HAProxy
Our long time partner Metaswitch, desperately needed to stop brute force login attacks on the enterprise phone system that they supply to large telecom companies...
WAF
Security
HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy
When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...
Storage
HAProxy
Open source
Neil Stone
How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...
HAProxy
Security
Open source
Kevin-Lucas Stroe
A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy
With numerous options available, choosing and configuring the right tool can be daunting...
How-tos
Integrations
HAProxy
Andrei Grigoras
How to limit connections with HAProxy, iptables or nftables
The app I was dealing with wouldn't allow me to rate limit the total number of connections going through it...
HAProxy
Security
Layer 7
Damian Pacuszka
See who's really visiting your website: Achieving IP transparency with the Proxy Protocol
There are a few different ways to achieve IP transparency, but one of the most effective is with the help of the great Proxy Protocol...
Open source
HAProxy
Layer 7
Andrei Grigoras
HAProxy reverse proxy: the what, when, and how
Perplexed by proxy?! Ruffled by reverse proxy?! We’ve all been there. Honestly, sometimes I think the language we use makes things sound way more complicated than they actually are...
HAProxy
How-tos
Layer 7
Joe Robinson
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
How-tos
HAProxy
Security
Jeff Gosden
Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance
With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...
How-tos
HAProxy
Integrations