HAProxy Administration Training Course

1. Quick introduction to load balancing and load balancers

2. Introduction to HAProxy

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

       3. HA Proxy Alternatives

       1. a. Nginx <\/li>
       2. b. Apache etc. <\/li>

       4. Quick reminder about HTTP

       • The HTTP transaction model <\/li>
       • HTTP request <\/li>
       • The request line <\/li>
       • The request headers <\/li>
       • HTTP response <\/li>
       • The response line <\/li>
       • The response headers <\/li>

       5. Configuring HAProxy

       1. Configuration file format <\/li>
       2. Quoting and escaping <\/li>
       3. Environment variables <\/li>
       4. Time format <\/li>
       5. Examples <\/li>

       6. Global parameters

       1. Process management and security <\/li>
       2. Performance tuning <\/li>
       3. Debugging <\/li>
       4. Userlists <\/li>
       5. Peers <\/li>
       6. Mailers <\/li>

       7. Proxies

       1. Proxy keywords matrix <\/li>
       2. Alphabetically sorted keywords reference <\/li>

       8. Bind and server options

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

       9. HTTP header manipulation

       10. Using ACLs and fetching samples

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

       11. Logging

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

       12. Supported filters

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