jfusterm/haproxy repository overview

⁠Tags & Dockerfile

• 1.6.9, 1.6, latest (Dockerfile)⁠

⁠What is HAProxy?

HAProxy⁠ is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for very high traffic web sites and powers quite a number of the world's most visited ones.

⁠Usage

Since each HAProxy usage its different and will require an appropriate configuration file, this image comes with no default one. There are several approaches to use your own configuration file with this image.

⁠Use your own image

• Create a Dockerfile

FROM jfusterm/haproxy:1.6.5
COPY haproxy.cfg /haproxy/etc

• Build the image

$ docker build -t my-haproxy:1.6.5 .

• Run the container

$ docker run -d --name my-haproxy -p 80:80 my-haproxy:1.6.5

⁠Copy the haproxy.cfg to the container

• Create the container

$ docker create --name haproxy -p 80:80 jfusterm/haproxy:1.6.5

• Copy the configuration file to the container

$ docker cp haproxy.cfg haproxy:/haproxy/etc

• Start the container

$ docker start haproxy

⁠Bind mount the configuration file

$ docker run --name haproxy -p 80:80 -v /dir/haproxy.cfg:/haproxy/etc/haproxy.cfg jfusterm/haproxy:1.6.5