Haproxy reloads and total-to-server counter

[lukastribus]

No, running TCP connections cannot be transferred from one process to the other.

You may want to take a look at the different possibilities to avoid the reload for new servers (DNS discovery, admin socket configuration).

Take a look at this thread:

Long lived TCP connections and HAProxy reloads

Hi, With reference to this post [1] and with my own experience of the exact same thing in the past, i’m wondering if you have any suggestions or best practices how to deal with it. The problem, in summary is that, in a dynamic environment where there are many deploys happening every hour from a bunch of services in a microservices platform, HAProxy configurations needed to be reloaded quite often. Usually there are many REST based services that communicate via the HTTP protocol, but at times (…