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HAProxy Technologies Announces the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.5 

WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 25, 2021 -- Today, HAProxy Technologies announced the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.5 with:

  • External Ingress Controller – Applications running in a Kubernetes cluster find and communicate with each other, and the outside world, through the Service abstraction.
  • Service Mutual TLS Authentication – This version adds support for mutual TLS authentication (mTLS) between the ingress controller and the backend servers it routes traffic to. When the client and server communicate over TLS, the client verifies the server’s identity by checking that its TLS certificate was signed by a known Certificate Authority (CA); Simultaneously, the client sends to the server its own certificate so that the server can verify the client’s identity. That way, both sides can inspect the other’s certificate before agreeing to continue. In this case, the ingress controller is the client to the backend servers.
  • Basic Authentication – The ingress controller’s position in front of your services makes it the ideal place to implement security measures like authentication. That’s because it fulfills the role of an API gateway, where all traffic flows through it. You can offload complex work to this layer and it will cover all of your services.
  • Config Snippets Support – Instead of editing HAProxy’s configuration file, haproxy.cfg, by hand, you can simply add annotations to your Kubernetes Ingress, Service or ConfigMap files and apply them with kubectl.

For more information, read the HAProxy blog: Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.5

About HAProxy Technologies 

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely-used software load balancer, according to the company. Organizations rapidly deploy HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the utmost performance, observability, and security at any scale and in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is headquartered in Waltham, MA, with multiple offices across the US and Europe.


Source: HAProxy Technologies 

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