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Set up HAProxy with a metric exporter on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

HAProxy is an open-source proxy application. For more information, see HAProxy.

If you are running HAProxy on a cluster with the Fargate launch type, you need to set up a Fargate profile before doing the steps in this procedure. To set up the profile, enter the following command. Replace MyCluster with the name of your cluster.

eksctl create fargateprofile --cluster MyCluster \
--namespace haproxy-ingress-sample --name haproxy-ingress-sample
To install HAProxy with a metric exporter to test Container Insights Prometheus support

  1. Enter the following command to add the Helm incubator repo:

    helm repo add haproxy-ingress https://haproxy-ingress.github.io/charts

  2. Enter the following command to create a new namespace:

    kubectl create namespace haproxy-ingress-sample

  3. Enter the following commands to install HAProxy:

    helm install haproxy haproxy-ingress/haproxy-ingress \
--namespace haproxy-ingress-sample \
--set defaultBackend.enabled=true \
--set controller.stats.enabled=true \
--set controller.metrics.enabled=true \
--set-string controller.metrics.service.annotations."prometheus\.io/port"="9101" \
--set-string controller.metrics.service.annotations."prometheus\.io/scrape"="true"

  4. Enter the following command to confirm the annotation of the service:

    kubectl describe service haproxy-haproxy-ingress-metrics -n haproxy-ingress-sample

    You should see the following annotations.

    Annotations:   prometheus.io/port: 9101
               prometheus.io/scrape: true
To uninstall HAProxy

  • Enter the following commands:

    helm uninstall haproxy --namespace haproxy-ingress-sample
kubectl delete namespace haproxy-ingress-sample