This is an optional offering. Once deployed, users are responsible for its maintenance and updates. Feel free to ask for feedback in the #peer-support channel on EWC RocketChat.

HAProxy is a high-performance, open source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) applications. Users can use HAProxy to distribute workloads and improve website and application performance.

HAProxy features

HAProxy includes the following services:

  • Layer 4 TCP and Layer 7 HTTP load balancing.
  • Protocol support for HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC and FastCGI.
  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security termination.
  • Dynamic SSL certificate storage.
  • Content switching and inspection.
  • Transparent proxying.
  • Detailed logging.
  • Command-line interface (CLI) for server management.
  • HTTP authentication.
  • Multithreading.
  • URL rewrites.
  • Health checking.
  • Rate limits.

How to provision HAProxy Load Balancer

Tenants onboarded to the EUMETSAT site prior to October 2025 support EWC-managed Deployment, as described below. For tenancies onboarded afterwards, you may deploy via the corresponding Community Hub Item on any of the available sites.

EWC-managed Deployment (EUMETSAT Tenants onboard prior to October 2025)

1. Go to Provisioning → click Add Button

2. Select HAPROXY

3. Fill information for the machine and finalize provisioning

  • plan: eo1.large
  • network: private
  • security-groups: ssh-http-https
  • public IP: select one available or use external


Self-Service Deployment

Checkout the Community Hub Item.

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