Re: config changes on the fly -- dynamically adding/removing backend servers

, Alex From: "Skarbek, John" To: "alex.be...@yahoo.com" ; Mehdi Ahmadi Cc: HAproxy Mailing Lists Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 9:44 AM Subject: Re: config changes on the fly -- dynamically adding/removing backend servers Tying into Mehdi, I’ll sh

Re: config changes on the fly -- dynamically adding/removing backend servers

Tying into Mehdi, I’ll share with you what we do at our organization which works pretty well. For one, we have two haproxy servers that run keepalived. That way if we need to do something invasive we have a backup to handle the traffic. The process to flip to that server has minimal impact and

Re: config changes on the fly -- dynamically adding/removing backend servers

A `restart` - is naturally an unconditional step thats required - especially in cases of new backends or server additions therein - which are not trivial changes. Network loss / disturbance - if any - is negligible as any existing connections should be migrated between process with a minute window