Haproxy on kubernetes send requests to https backend

Help!
1

Hello,

We have Haproxy deployed to k8s cluster with helm. Haproxy version is 2.9.2

We are trying to send requests to some public https url backend , this is the haproxy config we use.


global
  log stdout format raw local0

defaults
  log global
  timeout client 120s
  timeout connect 120s
  timeout server 120s

frontend frontend1
  bind *:10443
  mode http
  default_backend backend1

backend backend1
  mode http
  server backendserver1 <example.com>

We port-forward to Haproxy service on port 10433 and send request to localhost:10433 via Postman, the request url is something like that

http://localhost:10433/some/path

So, what we want to achieve when we send the request from localhost we expect it to reach https://example.com/some/path but we have no luck, it just get 408 Request Time-out. How can we achieve this kind of routing.

I am new to Haproxy so, thank you in advance.

2

Hello,

try defining server backends like: server backendserver <example.com>:443 ssl. HAProxy is unable to detect if backend server is HTTP or HTTPS, you have to configure it.

3

Hi Dragonn,

I changed the config like you said and add the ssl verify none but when i send request i get 503 Service Unavailable, No server is available to handle this request.

Is there anything need to change in the config?

Thank you for your help