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From Docker Swarm to Talos Linux: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide

From Docker Swarm to Talos Linux: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide

How I migrated 28 services from Docker Swarm to Talos Linux Kubernetes in 2 days with zero downtime. Cilium CNI, MetalLB BGP, Flux GitOps, and all the things that went wrong along the way.

Stephane Thirion

21 Mar 2026 10 min read

HAProxy Odyssey: From NetScaler to BGP Anycast

HAProxy Odyssey: From NetScaler to BGP Anycast

From cutting cost-heavy Citrix nets to mastering BGP Anycast, my HAProxy journey shows how resilience, security, and automation evolve.

Stephane Thirion

23 Feb 2026 3 min read

From Keepalived to BGP Anycast: HAProxy HA on UniFi UDM Pro Max

From Keepalived to BGP Anycast: HAProxy HA on UniFi UDM Pro Max

How I got true active-active HAProxy load balancing using BGP anycast on a UniFi UDM Pro Max. No expensive routers needed.

Stephane Thirion

17 Feb 2026 6 min read

Installing OpenClaw: A Complete Guide from Scratch

Installing OpenClaw: A Complete Guide from Scratch

Your AI assistant doesn't have to live on someone else's servers. OpenClaw runs on your hardware, connects to Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp, and keeps your data private. Here's how to set it up.

Stephane Thirion

14 Feb 2026 5 min read

From SSH to API: Deploying HAProxy Data Plane API for Automated Load Balancer Management

From SSH to API: Deploying HAProxy Data Plane API for Automated Load Balancer Management

Replacing manual SSH configuration with HAProxy Data Plane API: how I automated load balancer management across an HA cluster using REST APIs and Ansible AWX.

Stephane Thirion

13 Feb 2026 5 min read

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

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.

Stephane Thirion

11 Jan 2026 7 min read

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

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.

Stephane Thirion

7 Jan 2026 4 min read

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

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

Stephane Thirion

23 Dec 2025 10 min read

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

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.

Stephane Thirion

10 Dec 2025 4 min read

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

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

The SNI Routing Trap....

Stephane Thirion

6 Oct 2025 4 min read

Comprehensive HAProxy High Availability Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

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.

Stephane Thirion

1 Sep 2025 5 min read

Implementing HAProxy High Availability: A Complete Migration Guide

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.

Stephane Thirion

30 Aug 2025 6 min read

Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy: A Complete Guide

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.

Stephane Thirion

29 Aug 2025 6 min read