Английская Википедия:HAProxy

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HAProxy is a free and open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and Proxy (forward proxy , reverse proxy) for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. It is written in C and has a reputation for being fast and efficient (in terms of processor and memory usage).

HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Slack, Speedtest.net, Tumblr, Twitter and Tuenti and is used in the OpsWorks product from Amazon Web Services.

History

HAProxy was written in 2000 by Willy Tarreau, a core contributor to the Linux kernel, who still maintains the project.

In 2013, the company HAProxy Technologies, LLC was created.Шаблон:Citation needed The company provides a commercial offering, HAProxy Enterprise and appliance-based application-delivery controllers named ALOHA.

Features

HAProxy has the following features:

• Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP) load balancing
• Multi-factor stickiness
• URL rewriting
• Rate limiting
• SSL/TLS termination proxy
• Gzip compression
• Caching
• PROXY Protocol support
• Scriptable multi-layer Health checking
• Connection and HTTP message logging
• HTTP/2 support on both sides
• HTTP/3 support
• WebSocket (RFC6455 and RFC8441)
• UDP/TCP Syslog load-balancing and forwarding/transcribing (RFC3164 and RFC5424)
• Event-driven Multithreaded architecture
• Hitless reloads
• gRPC Support
• Lua and SPOE Support
• API Support
• Layer 4/7 Retries
• Simplified circuit breaking
• Advanced debugging and tracing facilities
• Distributed stick-tables for stats collection and DoS mitigation

HAProxy Community vs HAProxy Enterprise

HAProxy Enterprise Edition is an enterprise-class version of HAProxy that includes enterprise suite of add-ons, expert support, and professional services. It has some features backported from the HAProxy development branch.

ALOHA

HAProxy Technologies’ ALOHA is a plug-and-play load-balancing appliance that can be deployed in any environment. ALOHA provides a graphical interface and a templating system that can be used to deploy and configure the appliance.

Versions

HAProxy has had the following version releases:

Version	Release date	End of life
Шаблон:Version	2001-12-16	2001-12-30
Шаблон:Version	2002-03-10	2006-01-29
Шаблон:Version	2003-11-09	2011-08-06
Шаблон:Version	2006-06-29	2016-03-14
Шаблон:Version	2010-02-26	2018-02-08
Шаблон:Version	2014-06-19	2020-01-10
Шаблон:Version	2015-10-13	2020-Q4
Шаблон:Version	2016-11-25	2021-Q4
Шаблон:Version	2017-11-26	2022-Q4
Шаблон:Version	2018-12-19	2020-Q2
Шаблон:Version	2019-06-16	2024-Q2 (critical fixes only)
Шаблон:Version	2019-11-25	2021-Q1
Шаблон:Version	2020-07-07	2025-Q2 (LTS)
Шаблон:Version	2020-11-05	2022-Q1
Шаблон:Version	2021-05-14	2026-Q2 (LTS)
Шаблон:Version	2021-11-23	2023-Q1 (stable)
Шаблон:Version	2022-05-31	2027-Q2 (LTS)
Шаблон:Version	2022-12-01	2024-Q1 (stable)
Шаблон:Version	2023-05-31	2028-Q2 (LTS)
Шаблон:Version	TBA (~2023-Q4)	2025-Q1 (dev » stable)
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Performance

Servers equipped with 6 to 8 cores generally achieve between 200,000 and 500,000 requests per second, and have no trouble saturating a 25 Gbit/s connection under Linux. 64-core ARM servers were shown to reach 2 million requests per second and 100 Gbit/s.

Similar software

• Nginx
• Gearman
• Pound
• Varnish
• Traefik

See also

• LAMP, LYME, and LEAP

External links

• HAProxy Open Source Website
• HAProxy Enterprise Website
• HAProxy Wiki on GitHub
• HAProxy issue tracker on GitHub