Server administration

Adding HAProxy as load balancer to the Kubernetes cluster

As I mentioned in my Kubernetes homelab setup post, I initially setup Kemp Free load balancer as an easy quick solution.While Kemp did me good, I’ve had experience playing with HAProxy and figured it could be a good alternative to the extensive options Kemp offers. It could also be a good start if I wanted to have HAProxy as an ingress in my cluster at some point. There’s a few things here we need in order to make this work: 1 – Make HAProxy load balance on 6443 2- Make HAProxy health check our nodes on the /healthz path Configuring HAProxy Since I’m using debian 10 (buster), I will install HAProxy using apt install haproxy -y Next step is to configure HAProxy. Its…

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