Installing and managing HAProxy with Ansible
One key element of high-performance web applications is the ability to scale, and the easiest way to achieve this is to use a load balancer to direct traffic to multiple nodes. This can provide both horizontal scale and, just as importantly, the ability to survive individual node failures.
There are many load balancers available, both open source and commercial, but HAProxy is certainly one of the more popular. Open Source, high performance, and highly configurable, HAProxy is a good choice for any site that requires load balancing.
This recipe will demonstrate how to install HAProxy, configure it, and add both a frontend and backend service to it.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need an Ubuntu 14.04 ...
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