Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 17.0
HAProxy ALOHA 17.0 introduces the new UDP Module and extends network management to the Data Plane API, a new API-based approach to network configuration.
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Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.1
HAProxy Enterprise 3.1 delivers a brand new ADFSPIP Module and enhancements to the HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module, CAPTCHA Module, Global Profiling Engine, and more!
January 2025 – Multiple rsync CVEs impacting memory and file handling in Linux virtual images
The latest versions of HAProxy Fusion fix multiple rsync vulnerabilities related to memory handling and file management in HAProxy Fusion’s Linux-based virtual images. We will cover these CVEs here.
Lasting Impressions and Technical Tidbits From AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS re:Invent 2024 has officially wrapped up, but not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Here are some key takeaways from our five days spent with AWS and app delivery enthusiasts.
KubeCon NA 2024: Service Discovery, Security, and AI—Oh My!
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Though KubeCon North America 2024 has officially come to a close, the CNCF's flagship event has left us buzzing with residual excitement. Here's what we've learned throughout those four days.
Nearly 90% of our AI Crawler Traffic is From TikTok Parent Bytedance – Lessons Learned
TikTok’s web scraper, Bytespider, is reportedly aggressively sucking up content to fuel generative AI models. We also noticed this while reviewing bot management analytics. Here's what we've learned.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0
Following the recent HAProxy 3.0 release, we're proud to announce that we've released HAProxy Data Plane API 3.0, which is available on our GitHub page.
Easily Remove Existing HAProxy Connections Made via Client Authentication
HAProxy Enterprise lets you immediately drop connections and remove the client if their certificate is revoked. Here's how to strengthen security without disrupting other users and customers.
Create an HAProxy AI Gateway to Control LLM Costs, Security, and Privacy
The introduction of ChatGPT caused sharply increased interest in large language models (LLMs). These AI apps also have unique deliverability concerns. Here's how an HAProxy AI gateway can help.
Reviewing Every New Feature in HAProxy 3.0
HAProxy 3.0 brings many improvements to simplicity, security, reliability, flexibility, and more. We'll dive into what’s new with detailed examples. It’s a long list, so get cozy and bring a snack!
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0 is now available. In this release, we've added TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs) to improve mapping, structuring, and validation for TCP services.
Announcing HAProxy ALOHA 16
With HAProxy ALOHA 16 comes our next-generation WAF, new load balancing algorithms, upgraded Linux kernel to 6.1, and better isolation of admin services.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.9
Introducing our next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF and HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module for unmatched security, performance, and reliability in a simple package.
HAProxy is Resilient to the HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood
Our implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol can effectively handle the CONTINUATION Flood.
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.11
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.11 features enhanced security with rootless containers, improved CRD management, and QUIC protocol introduction.
Software Load Balancers vs Appliances: Better Performance & Consistency With HAProxy
Different load balancer form factors don't always perform nor repackage well. Learn how HAProxy's unique software-first approach addresses common pain points when choosing the right form factor.
HAProxy is Not Affected by the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack (CVE-2023-44487)
CVE-2023-44487 found in the HTTP/2 protocol could allow a DoS attack against web servers, reverse proxies, or other software. HAProxy products are unaffected, but we're monitoring the situation.
HAProxy's Growth Continues With Rave Reviews and Powerful Capabilities
The G2 Fall 2023 Reports are in! HAProxy's acclaim across multiple categories, market levels, and global segments has risen. Here's what users are saying about their HAProxy use cases.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 2.8 & HAProxy ALOHA 15.5
Users who upgrade to the latest versions will benefit from features that enhance the flexibility of our enterprise security options to meet even more use cases.
Your Comprehensive Guide to HAProxy Protocol Support
Modern load balancers need broad internet protocol support. We’ll outline HAProxy's product-specific protocol support, highlight core features, and share handy use cases.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8
Following the recent HAProxy 2.8 release, we are proud to announce that we have released HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8, available on our GitHub page.
Announcing HAProxy 2.8
We're thrilled to announce the community-driven HAProxy 2.8 release! Join us on GitHub, Slack, Discourse, and the HAProxy mailing list.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.7
HAProxy Technologies is proud to unveil the 2.7 release of HAProxy Data Plane API. With this release, we support all HAProxy configuration keywords in the Data Plane API.
Announcing HAProxy 2.7 and HAProxy Enterprise 2.7r1
HAProxy 2.7 adds features such as Traffic Shaping, Stick Tables Sharding, Scalability Improvements, and Layer 7 HTTP Retry Updates.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.5
We focused on covering more HAProxy keywords, making the API a full-fledged way to configure HAProxy. In that area, version 2.5 brings a lot of improvements.
Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers & Never Reload HAProxy
Let’s consider one of HAProxy’s newest features, dynamic servers, which lets you add and remove servers from HAProxy’s load balancing list on-the-fly without ever reloading the process.
Announcing HAProxy 2.4
HAProxy 2.4 adds features such as support for HTTP/2 WebSockets, authorization and routing of MQTT and FIX protocol messages, DNS resolution over TCP, and more.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3
HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3 expands its service discovery mechanisms and introduces native support for discovering AWS EC2 instances and auto-scaling groups.
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.6
Version 1.6 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller gives you more access to the features present in the underlying HAProxy engine. You can now...
HAProxy Enterprise 2.3 & HAProxy 2.4 Support the Financial Information eXchange Protocol (FIX)
Having FIX available in HAProxy is great news for financial organizations. Here are the benefits of using HAProxy to route traffic to your FIX application servers.
The HAProxy Enterprise WAF
In this post, we'll demonstrate why you need a web application firewall to protect you from threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
Logging With the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller has two sources of logs: the controller and the HAProxy load balancer. Both can be customized.
Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.5
The HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.5 release brings some exciting features that let you control the underlying configuration, and much more.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2
The HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.2 adds service discovery capabilities with a native Consul integration. It also introduces file handling and storage support for...
Announcing HAProxy 2.3
HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing, and translating messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, and much more.
Is That Bot Really Googlebot? Detecting Fake Crawlers With HAProxy Enterprise
Find out how you can detect and stop fake web crawlers by using Verify Crawler add-on which comes included with the HAProxy Enterprise license.
Become FIPS Compliant With HAProxy Enterprise on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
In the blog post, you will learn how to become FIPS compliant using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and HAProxy Enterprise for TLS encryption.
HAProxy Enterprise Offers SAML-based Single Sign-On
HAProxy Enterprise handles SAML single sign-on for your applications and integrates with identity providers like Azure Active Directory.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.1
Version 2.1 of the HAProxy Data Plane API expands support to all available request and response actions, adds Lua actions, and improves file handling.
Announcing HAProxy 2.2
HAProxy 2.2 adds exciting features such as a fully dynamic SSL certificate storage, a native response generator, security hardening, and much more.
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.0
Version 2.0 of the HAProxy Data Plane API brings exciting enhancements that unlock the power of HAProxy’s flexible configuration and its runtime capabilities.
HAProxy Enterprise Ingress Controller Coming Soon to the Red Hat Marketplace
HAProxy Enterprise will be offered in the Red Hat Marketplace, allowing OpenShift users to take advantage of its advanced features for Ingress.
Use Helm to Install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
In this blog post, we show step-by-step, how to install the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller into your Kubernetes cluster using the popular Helm charts
Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters With the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Learn to use the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller to host multiple tenants in a cluster and configure namespaces, access controls, and resource quotas.
HAProxy 2.1: Supercharged Performance & Streamlined Codebase
HAProxy 2.1 brings visible performance gains in key areas and new features including Dynamic SSL Certificate Updates, FastCGI and a streamlined codebase.
Dissecting the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller
Learn how the new HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller provides a high-performance ingress for your Kubernetes-hosted applications.
The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
This blog post shows you how to use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands.
HAProxy 2.0 & Beyond
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments.
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 3
In this blog post, learn to use HAProxy, Keepalived, Terraform, and Ansible to set up highly-available load balancing in AWS.
Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3 [Health Checks]
In the blog post, you'll learn various ways to health check your servers so that your APIs maintain a high level of reliability. This includes...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication]
In the blog post, you'll learn more about using HAProxy as an API gateway, leveraging it to secure your API endpoints using OAuth 2.
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HAProxy 1.9 Has Arrived
Announcing the release of HAProxy 1.9, which brings end-to-end HTTP/2, buffer and connection management improvements, native HTTP representation, and more.
Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection With HAProxy
HAProxy's high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world's top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application w
Introduction to HAProxy Maps
In this post, you’ll learn how to create an HAProxy map file, store it on your system, reference it in your HAProxy configuration, and update it in real time.
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 2
In this blog post, we'll demonstrate how to place HAProxy at the edge of your AWS infrastructure without involving Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]
An API gateway routes client requests intelligently and handles functions such as load balancing, security, and rate limiting.
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Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
Learn about using HAProxy ACLs to define custom rules for blocking malicious requests, choosing backends, redirecting to HTTPS, and using cached objects.
Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 1.8r1
We are very excited to announce the release of HAProxy Enterprise 1.8r1, which is built on top of the monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8.
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 1
In this blog post, we'll demonstrate how to use HAProxy in combination with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Application Load Balancer (ALB).
Dynamic Configuration With the HAProxy Runtime API
In this blog post, we'll take you on a tour of the HAProxy Runtime API and its capability to dynamically configure ACLs, stick tables and TLS ticket keys.
Announcing HAProxy 1.8
The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.
Truly Seamless Reloads With HAProxy – No More Hacks!
What users often call a “seamless” or “hitless” reload is a configuration update or a service upgrade performed with no impact on user experience.
Announcing HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
HAProxy Aloha Layer 7 IPv6 to IPv4 Configuration (Guide)
In this blog post, we show how to configure HAProxy Aloha to use it as an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway without modifying anything on your current platform.
