The HAProxy Data Plane API lets you manage your HAProxy configuration dynamically using HTTP REST APIs. HAProxy Data Plane API 2.0.

The purpose of this repository is to demonstrate how to add a backend in HAProxy's conf file dynamically using its inbuilt REST API (data plane API). We'll run 3 docker container 2 hello-world docker container and one HA-Proxy's container.

Run docker-compose up --build and will spin up 3 containers.

Note: If you get this error haproxy|level=fatal msg="Error initiating users: no users configured in /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg, error: section missing" This issue will usually arise in windows.

Solution: File needs to be saved in unix style: Select end of line sequence as LF(\n) instead of CRLF(\r)

We've setup haproxy.cfg in such a way that localhost will point to haproxy and it will execute the routing logic to route the request.

http://localhost/ -> routes to default_backend (web1)
http://localhost/web1/ -> routes to web1
http://localhost/web2/ -> routes to web2

The catch is, backend web1 is configured in haproxy.cfg but backend web2 is absent and we'll add that dynamically using API.

backend web1
    server web1 web1:80 check

Now use these APIs to add backend at runtime.

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.