HAProxy Enterprise Basic - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 AMI
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Reliable, Fast, and Easy to Deploy
What do you like best about the product?
It'reliable and fast. Easy to deploy on legacy and cloud native.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really nothing. It's really good at is job.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying to different VM and having a single point of access.
Love the L7 Route
What do you like best about the product?
HAProxy is one of those rare pieces of infrastructure software that you can deploy and essentially forget about — it just works, handles massive traffic with minimal resources, and never surprises you. The combination of a transparent, single-file configuration with powerful features like stick tables, granular health checks, and zero-downtime reloads makes it the gold standard for load balancing.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I'm being honest, the configuration syntax can feel archaic — it's powerful but has a steep learning curve, and the documentation reads more like a reference manual than a guide, which makes onboarding painful. The lack of a native API for dynamic backend management (without reloads or the Runtime API's limitations) also feels outdated compared to more modern alternatives like Envoy, especially in Kubernetes-native environments where service discovery is constantly in flux.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HAProxy sits as the critical traffic routing layer in front of our high-traffic news portals, solving the fundamental problem of reliably distributing millions of requests across backend servers while providing health checking, SSL termination, and graceful failover — meaning readers always get their content even when individual backends go down. The direct benefit for me as the infrastructure engineer is peace of mind: HAProxy's rock-solid stability means I spend my time on proactive improvements instead of firefighting load balancer issues, and its detailed stats and logging give me instant visibility when something upstream actually does break.
Fast, Reliable Load Balancer
What do you like best about the product?
HAProxy offers excellent performance and reliability for high-traffic applications
What do you dislike about the product?
Its configuration syntax can be complex and difficult for beginners to understand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HAProxy solves traffic distribution and availability problems by balancing requests across multiple servers, preventing overload and downtime.
It Just Works
What do you like best about the product?
HAProxy is the gold standard for load balancing. It’s incredibly fast, rock-solid stable, and able to handle massive traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. The configuration feels logical and straightforward, and the observability features offer deep insight into network traffic and behavior. If you need high availability and top-tier performance, this is the tool to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex configuration: The haproxy.cfg syntax comes with a steep learning curve, and it can feel a bit “old-school” and rigid compared with more modern, YAML-based tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing.
Reliable, Easy to Use, and Straightforward to Configure
What do you like best about the product?
It’s been on the market for a long time, and it has proven to be very reliable. It’s also easy to use and straightforward to configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many companies are advertising it, and adoption of k8s has been slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing for on-premises clusters and VMs.
Robust, Easy to Use, and Kubernetes-Native
What do you like best about the product?
It seems robust and easy to use. The Kubernetes-native support is a definite plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
I mean, nothing. Great team, great products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I feel secure behind their waf
Universal Mesh: A Solid, Flexible Fit
What do you like best about the product?
The new feature of universal mesh is amazing
What do you dislike about the product?
Actually none but lets use it and lets see
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making proxy more flexible over more than one cluster
Open-Source and Highly Available—A Reliable Choice
What do you like best about the product?
The opensource and highly available nature it provides.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be overkill for some situations. It should be verified in each environment whether its a necessity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load balancing issues when having multiple applications serving traffic.
Easy to manage
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, and the migration from Ingress NGINX was done easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
There aren’t many releases—only one release per year.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manage traffic.
Love it
What do you like best about the product?
Load balancing, port forwarding, reverse proxy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Works fine every time. Nothing I would add
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
quick traffic and easy ti set up
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