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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...
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Find step-by-step technical guides and tutorials for load balancer configuration. Learn how to master Layer 4, 7 and GSLB, automate deployments with our API/CLI, and configure advanced features like SSL termination, health checks, and HA clustering.
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
Neil Hosking
How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance
If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...
How-tos
Security
SSL/TLS
Andrew Howe
Three scenarios for implementing time-based security and content switching on your load balancer
It can sometimes be useful to make load balancing decisions based on the time and date. This allows you to conditionally refuse or redirect connections based on the time they're received...
How-tos
Security
Neil Stone
How to deploy a Loadbalancer appliance on Proxmox
Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...
How-tos
Jon Morby
How to add loopback interfaces on Windows with PowerShell
One of the most frequent issues I encounter when customers are setting up a loopback adapter on Windows as part of their DR mode deployment is the confusion over which commands to enter...
How-tos
Jon Morby
How to create an SSL certificate in Linux
I thought I would try and cover the basics here by explaining how to create an SSL certificate and the various files that you'll end up with...
How-tos
Security
Integrations
Andrei Grigoras
DICOM viewers: Can you recommend a free one I can trust?
After about an hour of searching I finally found two viewers that I can recommend...
Healthcare
How-tos
Jeff Gosden
Automating load balancer management with Ansible Playbooks
Ansible is an open source project sponsored by RedHat, and is the simplest way to automate IT tasks...
Automation
How-tos
Integrations
Victor Moldovan
Load balancing Moodle's learning application system (LMS)
Moodle is a great platform for learning, but requires load balancing to facilitate the secure and timely distribution and delivery of that data...
How-tos
Jeff Gosden
Using Grafana with your Loadbalancer.org appliance
How many times have you looked at the HAProxy report and thought, what on earth is this all about?! What are the busiest times on my Loadbalancer? Which Real Server is busy? How much traffic is going through my VIPs?..
Automation
How-tos
Integrations
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
Jeff Gosden
Using Postman to upload certificates to your Loadbalancer.org appliance
You don't need me to tell you that Postman is an API platform used for building and using APIs, designed to make your life a whole lot easier!..
How-tos
Automation