HAProxy Administration Training Course

1. Quick introduction to load balancing and load balancers
 

2. Introduction to HAProxy

1. What HAProxy is and is not
2. How HAProxy works
3. Basic features
   1. Proxying
   2. SSL
   3. Monitoring
   4. High availability
   5. Load balancing
   6. Stickiness
   7. Sampling and converting information
   8. Maps
   9. ACLs and conditions
   10. Content switching
   11. Stick-tables
   12. Formatted strings
   13. HTTP rewriting and redirection
   14. Server protection
   15. Logging
   16. Statistics
4.  Advanced features
   1. Management
   2. System-specific capabilities
   3. Scripting
5. Sizing
6. How to get HAProxy

3. HA Proxy Alternatives

1. a. Nginx
2. b. Apache etc.

4. Quick reminder about HTTP

• The HTTP transaction model
• HTTP request
• The request line
• The request headers
• HTTP response
• The response line
• The response headers

5. Configuring HAProxy

1. Configuration file format
2. Quoting and escaping
3.  Environment variables
4. Time format
5. Examples
    

6. Global parameters

1. Process management and security
2. Performance tuning
3. Debugging
4. Userlists
5. Peers
6. Mailers

7. Proxies

1. Proxy keywords matrix
2. Alphabetically sorted keywords reference

8. Bind and server options

1. Bind options
2. Server and default-server options
3. Server DNS resolution
4. Global overview
5. The resolvers section

9. HTTP header manipulation

10. Using ACLs and fetching samples

1. ACL basics
2. Matching booleans
3. Matching integers
4.  Matching strings
5. Matching regular expressions (regexes)
6. Matching arbitrary data blocks
7. Matching IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
8. Using ACLs to form conditions
9.  Fetching samples
10. Converters
11. Fetching samples from internal states
12. Fetching samples at Layer 4
13. Fetching samples at Layer 5
14. Fetching samples from buffer contents (Layer 6)
15. Fetching HTTP samples (Layer 7)
16. Pre-defined ACLs

11. Logging

1. Log levels
2. Log formats
3. Default log format
4. TCP log format
5. HTTP log format
6. Custom log format
7. Error log format
8. Advanced logging options
9. Disabling logging of external tests
10. Logging before waiting for the session to terminate
11. Raising log level upon errors
12. Disabling logging of successful connections
13. Timing events
14. Session state at disconnection
15. Non-printable characters
16. Capturing HTTP cookies
17. Capturing HTTP headers
18. Examples of logs

12. Supported filters

1. Trace
2. HTTP compression
3. Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE)
4. Cache
5. Limitationb. SetupCache section
6. Proxy section