Re: how to update config w/o stopping the haproxy service

2013-06-15 Thread S Ahmed
Hi,

The goal was to swap the haproxy configuraiton file with a new updated one
w/o any downtime.


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Christian Ruppert  wrote:

> On 04/28/13 at 01:00PM -0400, S Ahmed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1.  Is there a way to update the config file without having to stop/start
> > the haproxy service? e.g. when I need to update the ip addresses of the
> > backend servers (using ec2)
> >
> > 2. During migrations, say I have 10 backend servers, what if I want to
> stop
> > taking requests for 5 of the 10 servers, is the best way to update the
> > config and just remove them?  Or is there a smoother transition somehow
> > that won't causes errors during the transition?
> > i.e. would it be possible to finish the requests, but stop responding to
> > new requests for those 5 servers I want to take offline.
>
> See https://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/disabled
>
> You can restart HAProxy by e.g.:-D -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -f
> /etc/haproxy.cfg -sf $(cat
> /var/run/haproxy.pid)
> Alternatively you could use the control socket by using socat:
> https://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/UnixSocketCommands
>
> So e.g. "disable server backend1/server1"
> Or even via the stats interface with "stats admin if ...".
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christian Ruppert
>


Re: how to update config w/o stopping the haproxy service

2013-04-28 Thread Christian Ruppert
On 04/28/13 at 01:00PM -0400, S Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1.  Is there a way to update the config file without having to stop/start
> the haproxy service? e.g. when I need to update the ip addresses of the
> backend servers (using ec2)
> 
> 2. During migrations, say I have 10 backend servers, what if I want to stop
> taking requests for 5 of the 10 servers, is the best way to update the
> config and just remove them?  Or is there a smoother transition somehow
> that won't causes errors during the transition?
> i.e. would it be possible to finish the requests, but stop responding to
> new requests for those 5 servers I want to take offline.

See https://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/disabled

You can restart HAProxy by e.g.:-D -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -f /etc/haproxy.cfg 
-sf $(cat
/var/run/haproxy.pid)
Alternatively you could use the control socket by using socat:
https://code.google.com/p/haproxy-docs/wiki/UnixSocketCommands

So e.g. "disable server backend1/server1"
Or even via the stats interface with "stats admin if ...".

-- 
Regards,
Christian Ruppert


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RE: how to update config w/o stopping the haproxy service

2013-04-28 Thread S Ahmed
Hi,

1.  Is there a way to update the config file without having to stop/start
the haproxy service? e.g. when I need to update the ip addresses of the
backend servers (using ec2)

2. During migrations, say I have 10 backend servers, what if I want to stop
taking requests for 5 of the 10 servers, is the best way to update the
config and just remove them?  Or is there a smoother transition somehow
that won't causes errors during the transition?
i.e. would it be possible to finish the requests, but stop responding to
new requests for those 5 servers I want to take offline.