HAProxy Administration Training Course

1. Brief Overview of Load Balancing and Load Balancers

2. Introduction to HAProxy

1. Defining what HAProxy is and what it is not
2. Understanding HAProxy's operational mechanics
3. Core features
   1. Proxying
   2. SSL
   3. Monitoring
   4. High availability
   5. Load balancing
   6. Stickiness
   7. Sampling and data conversion
   8. Maps
   9. ACLs and conditional logic
   10. Content switching
   11. Stick-tables
   12. Formatted strings
   13. HTTP rewriting and redirection
   14. Server protection
   15. Logging
   16. Statistics
4. Advanced features
   1. Management
   2. System-specific capabilities
   3. Scripting
5. Sizing considerations
6. Obtaining HAProxy

3. HAProxy Alternatives

1. a. Nginx
2. b. Apache, etc.

4. Quick Refresher on HTTP

• The HTTP transaction model
• HTTP request structure
• The request line
• Request headers
• HTTP response structure
• The response line
• Response headers

5. Configuring HAProxy

1. Configuration file syntax
2. Quoting and escaping rules
3. Environment variables
4. Time format specifications
5. Configuration examples

6. Global Parameters

1. Process management and security
2. Performance tuning
3. Debugging techniques
4. User lists
5. Peers
6. Mailers

7. Proxies

1. Proxy keywords matrix
2. Alphabetically sorted reference of keywords

8. Bind and Server Options

1. Bind options
2. Server and default-server options
3. Server DNS resolution
4. Global overview
5. The resolvers section

9. HTTP Header Manipulation

10. Using ACLs and Fetching Samples

1. ACL basics
2. Matching boolean values
3. Matching integers
4. Matching strings
5. Matching regular expressions (regexes)
6. Matching arbitrary data blocks
7. Matching IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
8. Using ACLs to establish conditions
9. Fetching samples
10. Converters
11. Fetching samples from internal states
12. Fetching samples at Layer 4
13. Fetching samples at Layer 5
14. Fetching samples from buffer contents (Layer 6)
15. Fetching HTTP samples (Layer 7)
16. Pre-defined ACLs

11. Logging

1. Log levels
2. Log formats
3. Default log format
4. TCP log format
5. HTTP log format
6. Custom log format
7. Error log format
8. Advanced logging options
9. Disabling logging of external tests
10. Logging prior to session termination
11. Raising log level upon errors
12. Disabling logging of successful connections
13. Timing events
14. Session state at disconnection
15. Non-printable characters
16. Capturing HTTP cookies
17. Capturing HTTP headers
18. Log examples

12. Supported Filters

1. Trace
2. HTTP compression
3. Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE)
4. Cache
5. Limitation and SetupCache section
6. Proxy section