The HAProxy Administration training is a focused two-day program designed to help IT and DevOps professionals gain practical expertise in installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting HAProxy for high availability and load balancing. This course emphasizes real-world administration scenarios, enabling participants to optimize traffic distribution, improve application performance, and ensure resilient infrastructure for modern web and enterprise applications.

• Understand the architecture, components, and traffic management capabilities of HAProxy for high-availability environments.
• Install, configure, and manage HAProxy environments for load balancing and application delivery.
• Configure frontends, backends, load balancing algorithms, health checks, and routing policies effectively.
• Implement SSL termination, access control, session persistence, and traffic security configurations.
• Monitor traffic, analyze logs, troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize application availability.
• Build scalable, secure, and production-ready load balancing infrastructures using HAProxy best practices.

 • System administrators and Linux administrators
 • DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers
 • Network engineers and infrastructure specialists
 • IT professionals responsible for high availability and load balancing

 • Basic understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and SSL
 • Familiarity with Linux operating systems and command-line usage
 • Basic knowledge of web servers and application deployment is recommended

 • Installing and configuring HAProxy on Linux systems
 • Managing load balancing algorithms and traffic policies
 • Implementing high availability and failover strategies
 • Securing HAProxy using SSL/TLS and access controls
 • Monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting HAProxy environments

By the end of this training, participants will be able to confidently administer HAProxy in production environments. Learners will gain the ability to configure efficient load balancing, implement high availability, secure application traffic, and monitor and troubleshoot HAProxy to ensure reliable and scalable application delivery.

HAProxy Fundamentals and Configuration
 • Introduction to HAProxy and load balancing concepts
 • HAProxy architecture and request processing flow
 • Installing HAProxy on Linux platforms
 • Understanding configuration file structure and syntax
 • Frontends, backends, and listeners explained
 • Load balancing algorithms and use cases
 • Health checks and backend server management

Advanced Administration and Operations
 • High availability setups and failover mechanisms
 • SSL/TLS configuration and HTTPS termination
 • Session persistence and stick tables
 • Security best practices and access control lists
 • Logging, monitoring, and performance tuning
 • Troubleshooting common HAProxy issues
 • Real-world deployment scenarios and best practices

• HAProxy Setup & Load Balancing Architecture
• Frontend, Backend & Routing Configuration
• Health Checks, SSL & Access Control Implementation
• Monitoring, Logging & Performance Optimization
• End-to-End High Availability Infrastructure Project

Participants will be evaluated through hands-on configuration tasks, practical demonstrations, and scenario-based discussions during the training. The evaluation focuses on the participant’s ability to configure HAProxy correctly, apply best practices, and resolve common administrative and operational challenges.

Participants will receive course materials, slides, reference materials, exercises and access to resources for further learning.

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will receive the AcadNXT Certification for HAProxy Administration. This certification validates the learner’s skills in HAProxy configuration, high availability design, security implementation, and operational management for enterprise-grade application environments.