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HAProxy for Beginners
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(1,125 ratings)
4,762 students

HAProxy for Beginners

Load Balancing and High Availability
Created byHadi Alnabriss
Last updated 6/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Students will be able to build a high available and load balanced services

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 42m total length

  • Load Balancing Preface4:02
  • What is HAProxy3:56
  • Why HAProxy0:36
  • HAProxy Tasks1:00

    Learn how HAProxy accepts client connections and processes them, uses health checks to forward traffic only to healthy servers, and resumes routing when a server recovers.

  • Frontend and Backend Components1:25
  • Scheduling Algorithms8:44
  • HAProxy Configurations8:36
  • Practical Example27:48
  • HAPRoxy Statistics and Monitoring5:53
  • TCP and HTTP Modes2:47

    Understand the difference between tcp and http modes in haproxy: tcp operates at the transport layer, while http carries header data for round robin routing.

  • ForwardFor Option5:05
  • Access Lists8:14
  • Sticky Sessions15:14
  • SSL Termination5:45
  • Avoiding Single Point Of Failure2:32

    Learn to build a high availability system by using pacemaker to run two proxy servers with shared config and a virtual IP that fails over between them.

  • Conclusion1:06

Requirements

  • For practical Labs students are preferred to have basic knowledge in Linux in addition to VMware or VirtualBox

Description

HAProxy is the most powerful solution used for Load Balancing and High Availability, it is open source, stable and reliable , it can be used to receive  requests  from your clients and to distribute theses requests among your servers.

This course is a crash course, you will be able to move from beginner to advanced HAProxy admin within 80 minutes. In this course you will learn the following topics:

Load Balancing Concepts and Preface

What is HAProxy

Why to Use HAProxy

HAProxy Tasks

Frontend and Backend concepts

Scheduling Algorithms

Configurations

Practical Example

Displaying Statistics and Monitoring

TCP and HTTP modes

ForwardFor Option

Access Lists

Sticky Sessions

SSL configurations

Avoiding Single Point Of Failure

Conclusion


Eventually, this will be a continuous course I am going to add any additional topics I think they are important, and any topics requested by students.

So, if you think that this course can be improved by adding any topics, then please let me know.

Who this course is for:

  • Students interested in High Availability and Load Balancing

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