Installing and configuring HAProxy

The final element on the stack is HAProxy. Patroni uses this to redirect traffic to the primary read/write node in our PostgreSQL cluster. Technically we don't strictly need this component since Patroni will operate without it. But if we want the capability to always reach the primary node regardless of its location, this recipe is essential.

Let's build a high availability connection proxy!

Getting ready

This recipe depends on some necessary libraries and services. Please follow the Preparing systems for the stack and Installing and configuring Patroni recipes before continuing.

If this is a Debian-based system, begin by installing HAProxy from the standard system repository with this apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install haproxy

For Red-Hat-based servers, use an equivalent yum command:

yum install haproxy

How to do it...

For this recipe, we will need at least three PostgreSQL servers. As usual, we'll assume they are named pg1, pg2, and pg3. In addition, assume...