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Re:HAProxy 2.4 by paulddraper on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:28PM (#27252180)
You'd have more specific than "every single cloud provider" but in general HAProxy is way more advanced than most other proxies.

Stickiness, rate limiting, gzip compression, configurable logging, caching, Lua scripting, load balancing to domain names, more options for health lifecycle. It even has a control socket to instantly manage the server without restart. HAProxy is actually the inventor the PROXY protocol which a number of other systems have now copied.

The convenience of cloud proxies is no small matter, but on a feature-by-feature basis HAProxy easily dominates.

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Re:HAProxy 2.4 by rogerdonut on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:41PM (#27252241)
Well said, to add to this, HAProxy is also closing the gap on convenience with its recent addition of AWS EC2 service discovery [1] and Consul service discovery integrations [2].

[1] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-data-plane-a...

[2] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-data-plane-a...

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Re:HAProxy 2.4 by orthecreedence on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:57PM (#27252328)
Wow, cool. HAProxy is coming a long way. Consul integration makes me excited to take another look at using it for our mesh. Using Fabio right now, and it's fine, but I'd love to go back to HAProxy for this if it makes sense.
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