- HAProxy is a load balancer and proxy tool for TCP and HTTP, used for distributing traffic across multiple servers and optimizing application performance.
- Reviewers appreciate HAProxy's robustness, flexibility, and advanced features such as SSL termination, sticky sessions, and health checks, which improve application scalability and reliability.
- Users experienced a steep learning curve with HAProxy, finding its configuration files complex and difficult to manage, especially for larger setups with many backend services or advanced routing rules.