HAProxy

authentik

Deploying Authentik SSO with Azure SMTP and HAProxy: A Complete Guide

Setting up a robust Single Sign-On (SSO) solution is essential for modern infrastructure management. In this guide, I'll walk you through deploying Authentik with high availability using Docker Swarm, configuring email notifications, and integrating everything with HAProxy as a reverse proxy.

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Stephane Thirion

11 Jan 2026 · 7 min read

HAProxy

Securing Internal Services: Using HAProxy ACLs and AdGuard Home DNS Rewrites

Learn how to restrict sensitive services like monitoring dashboards and admin panels to your internal network using HAProxy access control lists combined with AdGuard Home DNS rewrites giving your users friendly domain names without exposing services to the internet.

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Stephane Thirion

7 Jan 2026 · 4 min read

HAProxy

Smart HAProxy Role Detection: Know Your Server's Status Instantly

Update (December 2025): The original script had a critical flaw in VIP detection that could cause both servers to incorrectly identify as PRIMARY. This has been corrected with a more

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Stephane Thirion

23 Dec 2025 · 10 min read

HomeAssistant

Home Assistant + HAProxy: Fixing Add-on Access Blocked by X-Frame-Options

Article written following real debugging on production infrastructure. Configuration tested with HAProxy 2.8.15 and Home Assistant 2024.12 since I had this issue for some times.

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Stephane Thirion

10 Dec 2025 · 4 min read

Parallels

Why Parallels RAS Wouldn't Work on Port 443 with my other services

The SNI Routing Trap....

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Stephane Thirion

6 Oct 2025 · 4 min read

HAProxy

Comprehensive HAProxy High Availability Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

Complete HAProxy HA monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Custom dashboard with eight panels covering instance health, throughput and error rates. Includes automated alerts for critical failures.

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Stephane Thirion

1 Sep 2025 · 5 min read

HAProxy

Implementing HAProxy High Availability: A Complete Migration Guide

Migrating from a single HAProxy instance to high availability using keepalived and VRRP. This guide covers implementing automatic failover with Virtual IP management, SSL certificate synchronization and zero-downtime service continuity.

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Stephane Thirion

30 Aug 2025 · 6 min read

NetScaler

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy: A Complete Guide

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy removed the 20 Mb/s freemium bottleneck and replaced dead SDX hardware with a modern, open-source load balancer. This guide covers content switching, tricky apps like Home Assistant and Outline, and the key features you can and cannot migrate.

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Stephane Thirion

29 Aug 2025 · 6 min read