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Re: HAProxy 1.5

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Impressive list of features. Does anyone know if HAProxy is used by any IAAS/PAAS providers?

I have the sneaking suspicion that Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer is based on HAProxy (and has been tracking the 1.5 series in development for some time). Nothing particularly evidentiary, but it's a glass slipper that fits very snugly.

Re: HAProxy 1.5

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Impressive list of features. Does anyone know if HAProxy is used by any IAAS/PAAS providers?

It's not necessarily part of OpenStack, but you'll most likely find it in every openstack deployment out there.

Re: HAProxy 1.5

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post #5
post #4

Impressive list of features. Does anyone know if HAProxy is used by any IAAS/PAAS providers?

I have the sneaking suspicion that Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer is based on HAProxy (and has been tracking the 1.5 series in development for some time). Nothing particularly evidentiary, but it's a glass slipper that fits very snugly.

I believe they use nginx. Traditionally ELB has been the most featureless LB's you'd ever encounter. That's in direct contrast with HAProxy. Truly a pain point with AWS IMO.

Re: HAProxy 1.5

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the sneaking suspicion that Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer is based on HAProxy (and has been tracking the 1.5 series in development for some time). Nothing particularly evidentiary, but it's a glass slipper that fits very snugly.

I believe they use nginx. Traditionally ELB has been the most featureless LB's you'd ever encounter. That's in direct contrast with HAProxy. Truly a pain point with AWS IMO.

ELB has features that nginx does not (health checks for one), and does not take advantage of many features that nginx does have. On the other hand, the feature set of HAProxy (1.5 branch, now "released") matches remarkably closely.

Re: HAProxy 1.5

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This release contains a neat feature: you can now bind HAProxy to a specific FD opened by its parent process. This means that you can babysit your HAProxy processes underneath a parent process that opens ports and get hitless HAProxy restarts, which I've long desired.
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