On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Baptiste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There is no issues at all doing this :) > You should have give it a try before posting, you would have the > response faster :) > > cheers > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Manish Kathuria > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to use the same instance of HAProxy for multiple services > by > > configuring multiple frontend and backend sections ? > > > > I have a Linux system which has been assigned multiple IP addresses > (primary > > and aliases) on the WAN interface and has HAProxy running on it. Can I > use > > the same instance of HAProxy to load balance multiple services (being > > serviced by different set of backend servers) by configuring multiple > > frontend sections, each of them listening on a different IP address ? > > > > The proposed configuration would be on the following lines where x.y.z.11 > > and x.y.z.12 are the IP addresses of the WAN interface. > > > > frontend alpha > > bind x.y.z.11:443 > > mode tcp > > default_backend alpha > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > frontend beta > > bind x.y.z.12:443 > > mode tcp > > default_backend beta > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > backend alpha > > mode tcp > > server abc 192.168.100.11:443 check > > server def 192.168.100.12:443 check > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > backend beta > > mode tcp > > server mno 192.168.100.21:443 check > > server xyz 192.168.100.22:443 check > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > If this configuration is not possible, are there any alternative ways of > > using the same system for load balancing multiple applications listening > on > > different IP addresses and running on different backend servers ? >
Thanks for your prompt reply. I have actually been using multiple front ends involving different ports (and services) but the same IP address. I wanted to make sure that the proposed configuration will not cause any issues before deploying it in production.
