Install and Configure HAProxy on RHEL 8 Linux - LinuxConfig.org

HAProxy or High Availability Proxy is an open source TCP and HTTP load balancer and proxy server software. HAProxy has been written by Willy Tarreau in C, it supports SSL, compressions, keep-alive, custom log formats and header rewriting. HAProxy is a fast and lightweight proxy server and load balancer with a small memory footprint and low CPU usage. It is used by large sites like Github, StackOverflow, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter and others. It has become the most popular software load balancer and proxy server in the past years.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/install-and-configure-haproxy-on-redhat-8