haproxy

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haproxy

Install, configure and run haproxy based on:

• haproxy.install
• haproxy.config
• haproxy.service

Use the supplied haproxy.cfg for a flat file approach, or the jinja template and the pillar for a salt approach.

haproxy.config

Currently, only a handful of options can be set using the pillar:

• Global

  • stats: enable stats, curently only via a unix socket which can be set to a path
  • user: sets the user haproxy shall run as
  • group: sets the group haproxy shall run as
  • chroot: allows you to turn on chroot and set a directory
  • daemon: allows you to turn daemon mode on and off

• Default

  • log: set the default log
  • mode: sets the mode (i.e. http)
  • retries: sets the number of retries
  • options: an array of options that is simply looped with no special treatment
  • timeouts: an array of timeouts that is simply looped with no special treatment
  • errorfiles: an array of k:v errorfiles to point to the correct file matching an HTTP error code

• Frontend Frontend(s) is a list of the frontends you desire to have in your haproxy setup Per frontend you can set:

  • name: the name haproxy will use for the frontend
  • bind: the bind string: this allows you to set the IP, Port and other paramters for the bind
  • reqadd: an array of reqadd statements. Looped over and put in the configuration, no parsing
  • default_backend: sets the default backend
  • acls: a list of acls, not parsed, simply looped and put in to the configuration
  • use_backends: a list of use_backend statements, looped over, not parsed

• Backend Backend(s) is a list of the backends you desire to have in your haproxy setup Per backend you can set:

  • name: set the backend name, used in the frontend references by haproxy
  • balance: set the balance type, string
  • redirect: if set, can be used to redirect; simply a string, not parsed
  • servers: a list of servers this backend will contact, is looped over
    • per server you can set:
      • name: name of the server for haproxy
      • host: the host to be contacted
      • port: the port to contact the server on
      • check: set to check to enable checking