How to Integrate HAProxy with Let’s Encrypt for SSL Certificate Management
Ensuring a secure HTTPS connection is a critical aspect of maintaining modern web services. Let’s Encrypt offers a fantastic way to automate the issuance of free SSL certificates. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a setup where HAProxy, a popular open-source load balancer, integrates with Let’s Encrypt to automate SSL certificate generation and renewal.…
Understanding HAProxy: A Key Tool for Load Balancing and High Availability
HAProxy, short for High Availability Proxy, is a powerful and widely used open-source load balancer and reverse proxy solution. It plays a central role in ensuring that websites and applications can handle heavy traffic loads effectively and remain available, even when certain servers experience issues. What Does HAProxy Do? HAProxy is designed to distribute incoming…