How to Install and Configure HAProxy on Ubuntu 22.04

HAProxy also stands for High Availability Proxy is a free, open-source Load Balancer and proxying solution designed to simplify and secure modern application architectures. It allows a web server to distribute incoming requests across multiple endpoints. It is very useful where too many concurrent connections over-saturate the capability of a single server. It is gaining popularity due to its efficiency, reliability, and low memory and CPU footprint.

In this video we will explain how to install HAProxy on Ubuntu 22.04. And also how to solve problem

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Commands Used:
apt-get install apache2 -y
apt-get install apache2 -y
apt-get install haproxy -y
systemctl start haproxy
systemctl enable haproxy

frontend apache_front
# Frontend listen port - 80
bind *:80
# Set the default backend
default_backend apache_backend_servers
# Enable send X-Forwarded-For header
option forwardfor

# Define backend
backend apache_backend_servers
# Use roundrobin to balance traffic
balance roundrobin
# Define the backend servers
server backend01 SERVERIP:80 check
server backend02 SERVERIP:80 check

systemctl restart haproxy
systemctl status haproxy