Description
In this course, we will learn about Load balancer concepts and its advantages specifically HAProxy.
HAProxy is flexible, fast and reliable open source software which can provide us with reverse proxy and load balancing ability.
We will conceptually talk about different aspects of HAProxy and load balancing.For each topic we will bring up lab environments by Vagrant and practice what we have learned and we verify the results to meet our expectations.Our basic topic includes:
- HAProxy installation
- HAProxy basic configuration sections
- HTTP mode
- TCP mode
- Non Default ports
We then move to more advanced topics including:
- ACL
- Logging
- SSL termination
- HA
- Health check and server failure detection