RPM builder for HAProxy 2.7 (CentOS 7)

Build latest HAProxy binary with prometheus metrics support

HAProxy 2.7.2 2023/01/20

Perform the following steps on a build box as a regular user:

sudo yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/philyuchkoff/HAProxy-2-RPM-builder.git
cd ./HAProxy-2-RPM-builder

Build:

Without Lua:

sudo make

With Lua:

sudo make USE_LUA=1

With Prometheus module:

sudo make USE_PROMETHEUS=1

Without sudo for YUM:

sudo make NO_SUDO=1

Resulting RPM will be stored in

/opt/HAProxy-2-RPM-builder/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/

Build using Docker:

sudo make run-docker

Resulting RPM will be stored in

./RPMS/

Install:

sudo yum -y install /opt/HAProxy-2-RPM-builder/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/haproxy-2.7.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

or, if you build *.rpm with Docker:

sudo yum -y install RPMS/haproxy-2.7.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm 

Check after install:

haproxy -v

Must be like this:

HAProxy version 2.7.2-7e295dd 2023/01/20 - https://haproxy.org/
Status: stable branch - will stop receiving fixes around Q1 2024.
Known bugs: http://www.haproxy.org/bugs/bugs-2.7.2.html

❗ If some not working:

Check SELINUX:

sestatus

If SELINUX is enabled - switch off this: open /etc/selinux/config and change SELINUX to disabled:

sudo sed -i s/^SELINUX=.*$/SELINUX=disabled/ /etc/selinux/config

Stats page

After installation you can access a stats page without authenticating via the URL: http://<YourHAProxyServer>:9000/haproxy_stats

Common problem:

[/usr/sbin/haproxy.main()] Cannot chroot1(/var/lib/haproxy)  

Solution:

Create /var/lib/haproxy directory

Check on the rpcbind service to ensure that this service is started