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...
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.
Here at Loadbalancer.org we have recently started the certification process of our product with Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)...
When you have users depending on Windows Terminal Services for their main desktop, it's a good idea to have more than one Terminal Server. RDP, however, is not an easy protocol to load balance...
I've previously blogged about how to get TPROXY and HAProxy working nicely together, but what if you want to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to use HAProxy to insert cookies in the standard HTTP stream to the backend servers?..
If you use HAProxy as the load balancer then all of the backend servers see the traffic coming from the IP address of the load balancer...