# Multiple Instances - HAproxy

**URL:** <https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-instances-haproxy/4374>\
**Category:** Help!\
**Created:** [October 7, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-instances-haproxy/4374 "2019-10-07T12:12:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![fgonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@fgonzalez](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/fgonzalez)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-instances-haproxy/4374/1 "2019-10-07T12:12:09Z")

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Hi community,

I leave this initial post because I have in production a HA-Proxy version 1.7.5-2 and I will update it to a new machine (I had thought to put the v2.0.7) and taking advantage of the change configure it in several instances (with several configuration files ), I searched the internet quite a bit and I only found a reference to do this action ( [https://elhombrequereventodeinformacion.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/split-haproxy-configuration-in-multiple-files-working-with-systemd/](https://elhombrequereventodeinformacion.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/split-haproxy-configuration-in-multiple-files-working-with-systemd/) ) but nothing in official documentation …

Could you tell me where to throw, thanks a greeting!

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**Author:** ![fgonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@fgonzalez](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/fgonzalez)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-instances-haproxy/4374/2 "2019-10-08T13:45:36Z")

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Any? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![lukastribus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@lukastribus](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/lukastribus)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/multiple-instances-haproxy/4374/3 "2019-10-08T18:49:18Z")

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> [@fgonzalez](#):
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> taking advantage of the change configure it in several instances (with several configuration files ),

Do you mean you’d run multiple separate instances of haproxy or splitting the configuration in multiple files used by a single instance?

Multiple configuration files can be specified at startup (or even pointing to a directory), as per the [management guide](https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/2.0/management.html#3-where).