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What you'll learn:
Application and Network Load Balancing

Requirements
Basic familiarity with Linux commands
Basic familiarity with HTTP protocol

Description
In this course, we will learn about Load balancer concepts and its advantages specifically HAProxy.

HAProxy is flexible, fast and reliable open source software which can provide us with reverse proxy and load balancing ability.

We will conceptually talk about different aspects of HAProxy and load balancing.For each topic we will bring up lab environments by Vagrant and practice what we have learned and we verify the results to meet our expectations.Our basic topic includes:

HAProxy installation

HAProxy basic configuration sections

HTTP mode

TCP mode

Non Default ports

We then move to more advanced topics including:

ACL

Logging

SSL termination

HA

Health check and server failure detection

I also added a section on how to automate HAProxy installation and configuration with Ansible at the end of the course(This section is completely optional).

The only prerequisite for this course is basic familiarity of Linux commands, and layers of TCP/IP stack specially TCP protocol and above.

You need a laptop with some tools installed including text editor of your choice,Vagrant,Virtual box.We may also install additional tool during some lectures.

This course is suitable for all system administrator who are willing to learn about load balancer and its applications.Even if you job requires you to work in cloud environment like AWS or Azure, you will gain solid understanding of LB and you could easily adjust your knowledge and apply it in those environments.

Who this course is for
Anyone who is interested in learning Load Balancing and specifically HAProxy from beginner to more advanced level
Anyone who wants to deploy LB in cloud environment could use this course to learn the fundamentals