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Life & fun · May 25, 2020

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HAProxy back end controller/scaler, supports AWS ASG and Consul

HAProxy back end controller/scaler, supports AWS ASG and Consul launched on May 25, 2020 with 12 votes, #1,098 of 4,813 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

ElasticPyProxy is a backend controller and scaler for HAProxy that integrates with AWS Auto Scaling Groups and Consul. It automates the management of HAProxy backends by dynamically adjusting them based on infrastructure changes. The tool is designed for operations teams and DevOps engineers who run HAProxy in cloud environments and need to keep their load balancer configuration synchronized with their auto-scaling infrastructure.

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From the sources

ElasticPyProxy (EP2) is a controller written completely in python for dynamically scaling HAProxy backend servers. Using this controller, it is possible to integrate HAProxy with a server orchestrator which spwans servers dynamically and scales out and in very frequently. As of now it provides support for the following: however handler for any orchestrator which exposes an API for getting live backends can be added easily. It is to be noted that consul is not an orchestrator but a service discovery tool. It can be used to discovery A given service can be discovered with consul and later the hosts/nodes which are the provider of that service can be discovered by either consul DNS or consul…from elasticpyproxy.readthedocs.io

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