Installing HAProx 1.8.X on Amazon EC2

Amazon Linux 2

Packages to install:

• git
• gcc
• openssl-devel
• systemd-devel

Clone source repository

cd /opt git clone https://git.haproxy.org/git/haproxy-1.8.git/

cd /opt/haproxy-1.8 make TARGET=linux2628 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 USE_SYSTEMD=1 make install cd contrib/systemd make cp haproxy.service /lib/systemd/system

Some additional packages for testing and troubleshooting

amazon-linux-extras install nginx1.12 amazon-linux-extras install vim

Ubuntu 16.04 HAProxy steps

apt-get install software-properties-common

add-apt-repository ppa:vbernat/haproxy-1.8

apt-get update

apt-get install haproxy