HAProxyConf 2021

Our Ingress Controller brings HAProxy to Kubernetes where the controller reacts to Kubernetes events and generates HAProxy configuration based on user input. This input can be provided in different ways: annotations, static files, custom resources. In this presentation, we will go through the detail… Read more

A typical SD-WAN solution consists of multiple components for management plane, control plane and data plane. Proxy services are required for data plane endpoints to communicate with OAM components across multiple underlay networks or routing domains. Separation of traffic across multiple routing do… Read more

At Yelp, a platform that connects tens of millions of people with tens of millions of great local businesses, we use HAProxy to load balance our traffic, block bots, and enable smart routing. Many of the features are powered by plugins written in Rust and Lua. In this presentation, I will describe h… Read more

There's no shortage of articles on CI/CD and how to run a configuration validation utility before reloading or restarting a service, but this type of validation is not the same as acceptance testing. Furthermore, these validations don't always give you (or your leadership team) the confidence to all… Read more

BankSITE Services uses HAProxy Enterprise to assist in the mitigation of Web Attacks against our network of Bank websites. HAProxy has become a critical part of BankSITE's security posture and BankSITE continues to add/refine the rules being used to help secure both our sites and network infrastruct… Read more

Last year, we at E Voyageurs SNCF launched our migration to the cloud and our journey provided valuable lessons for others on a similar path. Specifically, we will describe how we transitioned our security protocols, including adapting our traditional point-to-point communication and hardware firewa… Read more

At TravelAndLeisure, our migration to the cloud meant moving more than 1200 VIPs from F5 to HAProxy. With applications spread across different technologies like Java, Node.js, Windows, and microservices, and load balancing that relied on F5's iRules, we expected the shift to be complex. However, the… Read more

Arm brings brilliant people together in a global ecosystem that is sparking the world’s potential. Arm technology enables specialized processing built on the economics, design freedom and accessibility of general-purpose compute that has, so far, led to more than 180 billion chips being shipped by o… Read more

In this presentation, Andjelko Iharos, Director of Engineering at HAProxy Technologies, describes how an ecosystem of open-source projects has flourished around the load balancer technology. Developers can extend the load balancer in several ways, such as by building core components, Runtime API int… Read more

In this talk, Baptiste Assmann, principal solutions architect at HAProxy Technologies, recounts the history of the HAProxy load balancer up to the current day. As the way that teams deliver software has evolved, shifting towards cloud adoption, TLS everywhere, and containerization, HAProxy has adapt… Read more

The HAProxy Data Plane API now has the ability to get backends from AWS tags and Consul, upload SSL certificates, and other features that make it fit into modern configurations. In this presentation we will provide a brief introduction to the HAProxy Data Plane API and cover some of these new featur… Read more

Let's face it. The Internet is a scary place with intrusions, scraping, and attacks happening daily. At Modzy, we help developers deploy, manage, and get value from AI at scale, and we use HAProxy to protect our platform and our customers from threats lurking across the Web. In this talk, you will l… Read more

This talk will describe a new feature introduced in HAProxy 2.4: dynamic servers. We will cover the goals of this new feature, how it should be used and how it interacts with the environment, and its limitations.… Read more

Processing real-time payments requires reliable and secure infrastructure, and as the daily volume at Form3 is expressed in millions, the stakes are extraordinarily high. At this scale, with customers relying on you for one of the most critical parts of their business, the technologies chosen have t… Read more

At WoltLab, we bill customers of our SaaS offering based on resource usage, which requires meticulous tracking of any request being processed. Although it appeared to be an easy task at first glance, we quickly realized that there is no simple solution that ticks all the boxes: accuracy, reliability… Read more