Load Balancing with HAProxy: Open-source technology for better scalability, redundancy and availability in your IT infrastructure - Tapa blanda

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HAProxy is a free and open-source load balancer that enables IT professionals to distribute TCP-based traffic across many backend servers. In this book, the reader will learn how to configure and leverage HAProxy for tasks that include: · Setting up reverse proxies and load-balancing backend servers · Choosing the appropriate load-balancing algorithm · Matching requests against ACLs so that we can route them to the correct servers · Monitoring servers with health checks so that failure is detected early · Managing server persistence so that a client's can be directed to the server where their session data is stored · Configuring verbose logging for TCP and HTTP-based services · Enabling SSL encryption, gzip compression and geolocation · Modifying HTTP headers, rewriting URLs and setting up redirects · Defending against malicious Web activity · Controlling HAProxy from the command line · Adding a backup load balancer