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Jeff is a key member of our amazing Support team. In his spare time, he loves taking pictures... especially when he's on a bike ride! When he's not riding his bike, he's playing around with Raspberry Pis, whilst attempting to automate his entire house! #alexaLightsOn

Automating load balancer management with Ansible Playbooks

Automating load balancer management with Ansible Playbooks

Ansible is an open source project sponsored by RedHat, and is the simplest way to automate IT tasks...

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Automation: what's the difference between management and orchestration?

What exactly do we mean by 'automation'? And which tools work best for each scenario?..

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Using Grafana with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

How many times have you looked at the HAProxy report and thought, what on earth is this all about?! What are the busiest times on my Loadbalancer? Which Real Server is busy? How much traffic is going through my VIPs?..

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Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...

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Oh SNAPT! Where's my load balancer?

I was genuinely shocked and a little sad hearing the news that SNAPT has gone bust. They were a great company, with a nice product and more importantly — nice people...

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Using Postman to upload certificates to your Loadbalancer.org appliance

You don't need me to tell you that Postman is an API platform used for building and using APIs, designed to make your life a whole lot easier!..

Using Postman with the Loadbalancer.org API

Using Postman with the Loadbalancer.org API

Before we can connect to the loadbalancer appliance using SSH, we first need to allow this action through the Appliance Security Options via Local Configuration and then, Security...