Fundamentals: Application Acceleration and the Benefits for your Service Delivery
Application acceleration is all about improving the responsiveness of a digital service. When clients access web applications, they are expecting near-immediate feedback from servers. Maintaining that level of performance requires ensuring the right resources are...
Fundamentals: What is an API Gateway?
When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? In order to unpack how a gateway functions, we first need to understand what an API is. Application Programming Interface...
Verify OAuth JWT Tokens with HAProxy
With HTTP REST APIs serving as the backbone of modern web applications, securing those APIs presents a critical challenge for organizations. APIs are typically designed to be discoverable, self-documenting, and easily consumed by a range of programming languages, and...
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[On-Demand Webinar] What’s New in HAProxy Data Plane API 2.6
Eager to discover new ways you can leverage HAProxy and the HAProxy Data Plane API for load balancing? In version 2.6, the API gained support for a huge number of new keywords, moved to a newer version of the Go programming language, upgraded its version of Swagger...
Fundamentals: Load Balancing and the Right Distribution Algorithm for You
With the right load balancing in place, the demand of increasing web traffic can become manageable, but how do you determine which load balancing algorithm is best suited for your applications? Does the ease of use of static load balancing better suit the services you...
Fundamentals: High Availability and the Role of a Reverse Proxy
HAProxy. High availability and a reverse proxy–it’s in the name, but what does it all mean? Before understanding how the two concepts work together in the load balancing space, we need to unpack the basics of high availability and how a reverse proxy functions. In...
Path-based Routing with HAProxy
If you host dozens of web services that reside at various subdomains, TCP ports, and paths, then migrating them to live under a single address could simplify how clients access them and make your job of managing access easier. It would mean moving from a hodgepodge of...
Restrict API Access with Client Certificates (mTLS)
An application programming interface (API) provides access to the features of a business application, but with the visual elements stripped away. By using APIs, devices like tablets, self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, and robotic sensors can connect up to...
Log Forwarding with HAProxy and Syslog
Developing a strategy for collecting application-level logs necessitates stepping back and looking at the big picture. Engineers developing the applications may only see logging at its ground level: the code that writes the event to the log—for example a function that...
Preserve Stick Table Data When Reloading HAProxy
With HAProxy situated in front of their servers, many people leverage it as a frontline component for enabling extra security and observability for their networks. HAProxy provides a way to monitor the number of TCP connections, the rate of HTTP requests, the number...
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.6
In HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.6, we continued the effort of expanding support for HAProxy configuration keywords, as this has been the priority with this release cycle, and it will be in the next one too to meet our goal of achieving complete feature parity with...
HAProxyConf 2022 Call for Papers Now Open
HAProxyConf 2022 aims to bring together system administrators, security professionals, developers, and business leaders to share how they have used HAProxy to implement high availability, boost security, shift to the cloud, or improve observability. We’re calling out...
Custom Resources with HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides custom resources named Backend, Defaults, and Global that let you manage ingress controller settings more efficiently. To start using them right away, check the documentation for steps and examples. In this blog post,...
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.8
We’re proud to announce the release of version 1.8 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller! In this release, we added support for full rootless mode, Prometheus metrics for the controller itself, and examples that are synchronized with our Helm chart. In this...
Announcing HAProxy 2.6
HAProxy 2.6 is now available! As always, the community behind HAProxy made it possible to bring the enhancements in this release. Whether developing new functionality, fixing issues, writing documentation, QA testing, hosting CI environments, or submitting bug...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Using CRDs to Improve Quality of Life in Kubernetes
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 US: 12 noon EDT, 11 am CDT, 10am MDT, 9am PST EU: 6 pm CEST, 7 pm EEST Global: 4 pm UTC The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller now integrates even better with the Kubernetes ecosystem. By providing custom resources (CRDs) that represent...
Events
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[Conference] KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Detroit 2022
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce its presence at the 2022 KubeCon. One of the most exciting events of the annual cloud computing industry calendar, KubeCon 2022 will be taking place from the 26-28 of October both virtually and in person, in Detroit,...
