Description

Installs haproxy and prepares the configuration location.

Requirements

Platform

• Ubuntu (10.04+ due to config option change)
• Debian (6.0+)

Attributes

• node['haproxy']['incoming_port'] - sets the port on which haproxy listens
• node['haproxy']['member_port'] - the port that member systems will be listening on, default 80
• node['haproxy']['enable_admin'] - whether to enable the admin interface. default true. Listens on port 22002.
• node['haproxy']['app_server_role'] - used by the app_lb recipe to search for a specific role of member systems. Default webserver.
• node['haproxy']['balance_algorithm'] - sets the load balancing algorithm; defaults to roundrobin.
• node['haproxy']['member_max_connections'] - the maxconn value to be set for each app server
• node['haproxy']['x_forwarded_for'] - if true, creates an X-Forwarded-For header containing the original client's IP address. This option disables KeepAlive.
• node['haproxy']['enable_ssl'] - whether or not to create listeners for ssl, default false
• node['haproxy']['ssl_member_port'] - the port that member systems will be listening on for ssl, default 8443
• node['haproxy']['ssl_incoming_port'] - sets the port on which haproxy listens for ssl, default 443

Usage

Use either the default recipe or the app_lb recipe.

When using the default recipe, modify the haproxy.cfg.erb file with listener(s) for your sites/servers.

The app_lb recipe is designed to be used with the application cookbook, and provides search mechanism to find the appropriate application servers. Set this in a role that includes the haproxy::app_lb recipe. For example,

name "load_balancer"
description "haproxy load balancer"
run_list("recipe[haproxy::app_lb]")
override_attributes(
  "haproxy" => {
    "app_server_role" => "webserver"
  }
)

The search uses the node's chef_environment. For example, create environments/production.rb, then upload it to the server with knife

% cat environments/production.rb
name "production"
description "Nodes in the production environment."
% knife environment from file production.rb

License and Author

Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@opscode.com)

Copyright:: 2009-2011, Opscode, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.