HAProxy for Beginners

HAProxy is the most powerful solution used for Load Balancing and High Availability, it is open source, stable and reliable , it can be used to receive  requests  from your clients and to distribute theses requests among your servers.

This course is a crash course, you will be able to move from beginner to advanced HAProxy admin within 80 minutes. In this course you will learn the following topics:

Load Balancing Concepts and Preface

What is HAProxy

Why to Use HAProxy

HAProxy Tasks

Frontend and Backend concepts

Scheduling Algorithms

Configurations

Practical Example

Displaying Statistics and Monitoring

TCP and HTTP modes

ForwardFor Option

Access Lists

Sticky Sessions

SSL configurations

Avoiding Single Point Of Failure

Conclusion

Eventually, this will be a continuous course I am going to add any additional topics I think they are important, and any topics requested by students.

So, if you think that this course can be improved by adding any topics, then please let me know.