Setup HAProxy for Cluster Setup

HAProxy can be set up to distribute load among the Search servers within the Cluster.

HAProxy Installation

For CentOS 7
yum install haproxy

For Ubuntu 18.04
apt-get install haproxy

Update the configuration /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
vi /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

Based on the number provided in the preceding screenshot, the corresponding details are as follows:

To Enable HA Proxy dashboard configuration
Note: You can enable HAProxy Dashboard if required
Enabling the Load Balancer for HTTPS applications
Note: You will need to provide the SSL certificate.
For adding the servers into load balancing configuration

To start haproxy
systemctl start haproxy

To get status of haproxy
systemctl status haproxy