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Become HAProxy Load Balancer Expert - Using Ansible Playbook

Name: Become HAProxy Load Balancer Expert - Using Ansible Playbook
Rating: 3.7 (84 reviews)

Easy Learning by Example, Become Expert on HAProxy Load Balancer, Using Ansible Playbook deploy HAProxy cluster

Created byMuhammad Efendi

Last updated 5/2020

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Student will learn Load Balancing concept
Student will learn High Avaibility concept
Student will able to install HAProxy
Student will able to create several type of Local Balancing Algorithms

Course content

16 sections • 98 lectures • 13h 32m total length

Load Balancing Introduction7:51
Why HAProxy8:12
HAProxy Architecture and Components9:07
https://linuxconfig.org/install-and-configure-haproxy-on-redhat-8
Four Essential Sections of HAProxy Configuration7:46
Getting All Installation Scripts and Documentations5:44
Clone the GitHub repository to access HAProxy installation scripts and documentation for proxy configuration, install the config files on your web server, and configure round-robin with sticky sessions.

Apache Web Server Nodes Installation5:29
Creating PHP Script to Show Hostname3:56
Installing HAProxy Server on Ubuntu 18.047:48
Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 18.04 and configure a safe proxy, including dependencies, upgrades, and a frontend on port 4840 with health checks and monitoring.
Installing HAProxy Servers on CentOS 75:25
Install and configure HAProxy on CentOS 7, update packages, install and start proxy services, enable HAProxy, and verify health and traffic through the configured port.
Installing HAProxy from Source on Ubuntu 18.049:00
Installing HAProxy from Source on CentOS 75:37
Enabling HAProxy Logging3:21

An Introduction to Ansible Playbook16:43
Ubuntu : Installing Ansible and VMware Plugin4:29
Install ansible and the vmware plugin on ubuntu, then configure a simple playbook to provision a single virtual machine and demonstrate plugin setup and vm creation.
CentOS 7 : Installing Ansible and VMware Plugin3:22
MacOS : Installing Ansible and VMWare Plugin1:50
Understanding Ansible Playbook Terms7:45
Understanding Ansible Playbook Directory Structure7:40
Understand how to structure an ansible playbook directory, including inventory files for production and staging, roles and templates, and how to deploy web servers and databases.
Creating HAProxy VM Ansible Playbook Task7:00
Create a virtual machine for a HAProxy load balancer with an Ansible playbook, using inventory and a template to provision, install, and configure the proxy.
Creating Local Repo Config for HAProxy Installation Using Ansible Playbook9:19
Creating HAProxy Package Installation Ansible Playbook Task6:30
Creating HAProxy Ansible Playbook Template13:19
Creating HAProxy Ansible Playbook Template Task5:06
Create and connect an Ansible playbook template for HAProxy, map variables to a template, deploy the proxy configuration, and restart the HAProxy service across the inventory.
Creating HAProxy Error Files Playbook Task14:35
Running Ansible Playbook to Create HAProxy Cluster4:48
Creating HAProxy HA KeepAlived Using Ansible Playbook21:46
Creating Monit for KeepAlived Monitoring Using Ansible Playbook14:59

TCP Syn Flood Attacks4:37
Slowloris Like Attacks5:02
Limiting Number of Connections Per Users5:49
Limiting Connection Rate Per User9:44
Limiting HTTP Request Rate8:04
HAProxy: Content blocking6:59
Learn how to implement content blocking in HAProxy by using content-length header checks and ACL rules to deny invalid requests before they reach backends.
Restrict Specific IP Address8:11
Configure IP address restriction in HAProxy to allow access from specific IP addresses and block others, using frontend and backend configuration in the proxy.
WhiteList IP Address7:11
What is WAF (Web Application Firewall)?4:58

HAProxy Load Balancer Layer 4 and 76:23
HAProxy Round Robin6:53
HAProxy Least Connection9:26
HAProxy Static-rr (Static Round Robin)11:04
HAProxy Source IP Address Hashed17:28
HAProxy URL Forwarding9:35
HAProxy url forwarding by configuring a front end in layer 7 mode, routing requests by path to specific servers, with a default backend and round-robin load balancing.
HAProxy ForwardFor Option For Getting Client IP Address6:50

Understanding HAProxy Health Check7:36
Learn how to configure and monitor HAProxy health checks with a proxy monitor, ensuring server uptime and directing connections based on health status.
HAProxy Health Check Options and Types7:34
HAProxy L4 and L7 Health Check Configuration3:53
Checking HAProxy MySQL Health Check8:26
Checking HAProxy PostgreSQL Health Check Configuration6:41
Checking HAProxy HTTP Health Check Configuration6:40
Checking HAProxy Any Service Health Check Configuration5:14

HAProxy And GZIP Compression7:09
Configuring HAProxy Using Sticky Sessions18:15
Configuring HAProxy Using Backup Node5:06
Configuring HAProxy With gRPC Support13:12
Configuring HAPRroxy With HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 Support10:50
Configuring HAProxy Content Switching Using ACL12:44
Redirecting HAProxy HTTP Connection to HTTPS3:59
Redirecting HAProxy HTTP Base on Hostname4:27
Redirecting URL Path on HAProxy8:43
Appending 'www.' Prefix In Front of All Hosts Not Having3:51
Append 'www.' prefix in front of all hosts not having

http-request redirect code 301 location http://www.%[hdr(host)]%[capture.req.uri] unless { hdr_beg(host) -i www }

Requirements

Student has Linux basic concept
Student has TCP/IP basic concept
Student has Networking basic knowledge

Description

If you're thinking to become HAProxy Load Balancing Administrator, or you want to start to understand Load Balancer Algorithm, then this course is perfect for you. You will see video after video, from beginners with explanations that are easy to understand. Also this course will provide many examples that make it easy for you to follow and understand. In the first section, you will learn how to get all file configurations that we used during the course. You can use that file configurations to reproduce it on your environment.

In this course, you will use Ansible Playbook to deploy HAProxy cluster, KeepAlived and monit monitoring in VMWare environment. Using this Ansible playbook will make easy to deploy/manage HAProxy cluster.
This course has 14 sections, 86 lectures, and about 13 hours 32 minutes duration. You can download all videos, and watch them without internet connection. Most videos are about how to build HAProxy configuration by examples. You will follow step by step how to use and manage HAProxy cluster.

In this course, you will learn how to:

Understanding HAProxy concept and architecture
Installing HAProxy using Ubuntu and CentOS
Creating HAProxy cluster HA using KeepAlived
Install HAProxy cluster using Ansible playbook
Install HAProxy HA KeepAlived using Ansible playbook
Install KeepAlived monit monitoring using Ansible playbook
Manage HAProxy Using API and curl samples
Forward HAProxy log to Logstash/elasticsearch, check log using Kibana
Managing HAProxy Load Balancing Algorithm
Managing(creating and removing) HAProxy type and mode
Configuring HAProxy kernel to get high performance
Configuring HAProxy Load Balancer base on any algorithm types
Configuring HAProxy Round Robin LBA
Configuring HAProxy Static-rr (Static Round Robin)
Configuring Least Connection LBA
Configuring HAProxy Source IP Address Hashed LBA
Configuring HAProxy with SSL Termination
Configuring HAProxy with SSL Pass-Through
Configuring HAProxy URL Forwarding
Configuring HAProxy Using Recipes
Understand HAProxy Server Bencmarking and Tuning
Configuring HAProxy with HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 support
Configuring HAProcy with gRPC support
Understanding WAF (Web Application Firewall) for HAProxy
Configuring HAProxy Defense Against DDOS
Tuning HAProxy Performance
Configuring WhiteList IP Address and Restrict Specific IP Address
Monitoring HAProxy using Zabbix
Creating Grafana Dashboard for HAProxy frontend and backend
etc.

After you finished this course, you will have confident to use and manage HAProxy cluster.

Please ping and message me if you need my help to follow this course.

Thanks,

Muhammad Yusuf Efendi

Zabbix Certified Professional
IT Cloud Expert

Who this course is for:

Student who want to learn HAProxy Load Balancing
Student who want to manage HAProxy Load Balancing
Student who want to use HAProxy as High Availibility and Load Balancing

Become HAProxy Load Balancer Expert - Using Ansible Playbook

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 39min

HAProxy Installation7 lectures • 41min

Upgrading HAProxy Version2 lectures • 16min

Building HAProxy Cluster Using Ansible Playbook15 lectures • 2hr 19min

HAProxy Defense Against DDOS9 lectures • 1hr 1min

HAProxy High Availibitily3 lectures • 26min

HAProxy LBA (Load Balancing Algorithm) Type7 lectures • 1hr 8min

HAProxy Using SSL2 lectures • 21min

Performing Health Checks7 lectures • 46min

HAProxy Advance Recipes Configuration10 lectures • 1hr 28min

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