Establishing services' high availability using HAProxy
For this section, we are going to show in brief how to setup a high-availability/load balancer to control traffic over a specific service; in our case, we will use HTTP as for web server's traffic.
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For this job, we are using HAProxy as an open source solution for load balancing and services' high availability through multiple servers. It is commonly used for a website's traffic load balancing. HAProxy distributes the workload over many servers that offer the same services (basically web servers, databases, and so on) to improve the overall performance of the service ...
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