Role Name

Will install haproxy and configure it.

Requirements

Only tested on CentOS, Ubuntu and SmartOS for now. Some features are only possible with haproxy 1.5 (like the compresion flags). This role will install the public repository to install haproxy 1.5 on ubuntu. Or it will install the EPEL repository on CentOS.

Role Variables

There is a main dictionary that needs to be set named haproxy. This dictionary has 4 main sections :

global
defaults
frontends
backends

Each section has the most used parameters that I can think of. This role does not have (yet) full coverage of the main haproxy project. Feel free to submit a pull request if something is missing for you.

Example Playbook

I highly suggest that you use a seperate variable file for this role (using the vars_files directive), but you can use it in the main playbook if you insist:

- hosts: loadbalancers
  roles:
     - role: haproxy
       haproxy_frontends:
       - name: 'fe-mysupersite'
         ip: '123.123.123.120'
         port: '80'
         maxconn: '1000'
         default_backend: 'be-mysupersite'
       haproxy_backends:
       - name: 'be-mysupersite'
         description: 'mysupersite is really cool'
         servers:
           - name: 'be-mysupersite-01'
             ip: '192.168.1.100'

See the full example to see all options.

License

Apache v2

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