HaProxy is one of the widely implemented lightweight load balancers. It can be used to load balance reads using round-robin or least connection count algorithms between multiple database servers. In this recipe, we shall see the steps involved in installing HAProxy on a Linux server.
Getting ready...
HAProxy is generally available through the default repositories of both Red Hat/Centos or Ubuntu/Debian operating systems. All it needs is internet connectivity to download the packages from a remote repository.
How to do it...
HAProxy can be installed on RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu/Debian using the following steps:
- We can use the following command to install HAProxy on Red Hat/Centos:
$ sudo yum install haproxy -y
- We can use the following command to install HAProxy on Ubuntu/Debian:
$ sudo apt-get install haproxy -y
How it works...
Installing HaProxy is a simple one-line command as seen in the preceding section. It can be installed using YUM on the Red...
