Install and configure HAproxy on LBR Server KodeKloud Engineer Task Success

Question:   Install and configure HAproxy on LBR server using yum only and make sure all app servers are added to HAproxy load balancer. HAproxy must serve on default http port

 Please Note:-  Perform the below commands based on your question server,  user name & other details that might differ. So please read the task carefully before executing it. All the Best 👍

Solution:  

1. At first you need to log in to all the app servers and find the Listen port & need to start the httpd services.

2. Login on App server  ssh tony@stapp01

3. Switch to  root user : sudo su -

4. Enable httpd & start the service

 ( make sure you started on all the app servers kindly refer  below video)

    systemctl enable httpd

    systemctl start httpd && systemctl status httpd

5. Validate Apache HTTPd running  as per the task request

Now Login to the the LBR Server and install the haproxy 

1. At first login on LB server  ssh loki@stlb01

2. Switch to  root user : sudo su -

3. install the haproxy : yum -y install haproxy

4. Edit the vi /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg   file and correct the changes as per below

5. Validate the haproxy configuration file by running the below command

    haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

6. Enable and start the haproxy service

    systemctl enable haproxy && systemctl start haproxy

7. Validate the task  from jump server 

( httpd port  listen as per your app servers)

8. Click on Finish & Confirm to complete the task successfully

    Please Note:- I have shown only for stapp01.

    You have to do this in all app server  stapp01,stapp02, stapp03.

Happy Learning!!!!

Apart from this if you need more clarity,  I have made a  tutorial video on this , 

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