Installing HA Proxy

This section provides a step-by-step guide to installing HA Proxy.

HA Proxy, which stands for High Availability Proxy, is a software TCP/HTTP Load Balancer and proxying solution. Its most common use is to improve the performance and reliability of a server environment by distributing the workload across multiple servers (e.g. web, application, database).

To install HA proxy, follow the steps below:

  1. Add HA proxy repositories to helm configuration. 
    helm repo add haproxytech https://haproxytech.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
  2. Deploy HAProxy using Helm.
    helm install haproxy-ingress haproxytech/kubernetes-ingress --namespace haproxy --create-namespace
  3. On successful deployment of HAProxy, you can verify the pods.
    kubectl get pods --namespace haproxy