HAProxy
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HAProxy is a free, open-source load balancer and reverse proxy that is fast, reliable and offers high availability. It can be used to load balance HTTP and TCP-based applications. Some key features include out-of-band health checks, hot reconfiguration, and multiple load balancing algorithms. Many large companies use HAProxy to load balance their websites and applications. It runs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris and can be used to load balance applications across servers on-premises or in the cloud.
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•What is HAProxy?
•When to use?
•Who uses HAProxy?
•Similar Products & comparisons
•Why HAProxy?
•Examples
•Where it can be used?
•Design consideration
•How to implement
•Benchmarking – Comparing metrics before implementing HAProxy and after implementation.
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- 2. Agenda •What is HAProxy? •When to use? •Who uses HAProxy? •Similar Products & comparisons •Why HAProxy? •Examples •Where it can be used? •Design consideration •How to implement •Benchmarking – Comparing metrics before implementing HAProxy and after implementation. [ Above point will be covered in next sessions ]
- 3. What is HAProxy? HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications ● Proxying ● Load balancing , Scale out, Failover ( Health Checks) ● High availability
- 4. When to use? •Websites with very high loads. •Multiple connection to website. •Load Balancing required at HTTP and TCP level. •Fault Tolerance •Maximize Availability •Maximize throughput •Horizontal Scaling
- 5. Who uses HAProxy? •Stack Overflow •Server Fault •GitHub •Tumblr •Twitter •Imgur – Image hosting / sharing •Instagram – Image hosting/sharing •Reddit …………. For more users, refer - http://www.haproxy.org/they-use-it.html
- 6. Similar Products & comparisons •Nginx – Reverse proxy server , Load balancing , web server .. •Linux Virtual server – Runs in kernel mode, routes packets. - "fast as hell", but rigid as the kernel •Asp.Net WebFarm •AWS Elastic Load Balancer – Works with AWS or servers under AWS VPC. •F5 – Commercial •Varnish – Primarily focused on HTTP •……………….
- 7. Why HAProxy? Out of band health checks – Monitors server health by sending requests at configured intervals which are independent of incoming traffic Works on TCP More Algorithm option – Support more number of algorithm to select backend server. Open Source product. Speed. It’s really, really fast. Hot reconfiguration – Don’t need to put in maintenance mode and change config.
- 8. Examples •Load balance all png, jpg, gif requests to a specific server(s). •Load balance all mov, avi, mkv requests to a specific server(s). •Load balance users in South East US IP range to southeast.yoursite.com •Proxying users by ranking (gold customers, silver, bronze).
- 9. Where it can be used? •Linux 2.4 on x86, x86_64, Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PARISC •Linux 2.6 / 3.x on x86, x86_64, ARM, Sparc, PPC64 •Solaris 8/9 on UltraSPARC 2 and 3 •Solaris 10 on Opteron and UltraSPARC •FreeBSD 4.10 - 10 on x86 •OpenBSD 3.1 to -current on i386, amd64, macppc, alpha, sparc64 and VAX (check the ports) •AIX 5.1 - 5.3 on Power™ architecture
- 10. Design consideration Need to segregate DB Server from App Server.
- 11. Design consideration (Contd.) Clustering DB server. • All applications access the cluster via one single IP. The topology of the database cluster is masked behind HAProxy. • MySQL Connections are load-balanced between available DB nodes • It is possible to add or remove database nodes without any changes to the applications. • Once the max number of database connections (in MySQL) is reached, HAProxy queues additional new connections. This is a neat way of throttling database connection requests and achieves overload protection. Managing sessions: ◦ Set up sticky session in HAProxy ◦ Use centralized session management like Redis, Memcache
- 12. How to implement Download and install HAProxy. Jump to config file and set following ◦ Access control list ◦ Bankend ◦ Frontend Few Algorithm for selecting back-end server. • Roundrobin - selects servers in turns. This is the default algorithm. • Leastconn - Selects the server with the least number of connections--it is recommended for longer sessions. • Source- This selects which server to use based on a hash of the source IP i.e. your user's IP address. This is one method to ensure that a user will connect to the same server.
- 14. How to implement (Contd.) Load balancers are generally grouped into two categories: Layer 4 and Layer 7. Layer 4 load balancers act upon data found in network and transport layer protocols (IP, TCP, FTP, UDP). Layer 7 load balancers distribute requests based upon data found in application layer protocols such as HTTP. Node.Js App – HTTP Listener for different ports. HAProxy to make reverse proxy for port – 80 to others listed above. DEMO Browser Console Monitoring via Nagios, Scout
- 15. Benchmarking Will be covered in next session.
- 17. Thank you