HAProxy is one of the best free and open source software for using high availability load balancing and reverse proxy. It’s most suitable for HTTP and TCP based applications. Let’s see how to install HAProxy on Amazon Linux 2.
Prerequisites
- Amazon Linux 2
- sudo privileges
Install HAProxy on Amazon Linux 2
Step 1. Update the Amazon Linux 2 packages.
sudo yum update
Step 2. Install HAProxy.
sudo yum install haproxy
Step 3. If you want to check the default haproxy configuration, run:
cat /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
Step 4. To verify version, run:
haproxy -v
Output:
HA-Proxy version 1.5.18 2016/05/10
Copyright 2000-2016 Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Conclusion
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