Since the _haproxy_ role relies on other roles to provide drop-in
configuration files for actual proxy configuration, we cannot start the
service in the base role. If there are any issues with the drop-in
files that are added later, the service will not be able to start,
causing the playbook to fail and thus never be able to update the broken
configuration. The dependent roles need to be responsible for starting
the service once they have put their configuration files in place.
HAProxy can export stats in Prometheus format, but this requires
special configuration of a dedicated front-end. To support this, the
_haproxy_ Ansible role now has a pair of variables,
`haproxy_enable_stats` and `haproxy_stats_port`, which control whether
or not the stats front-end is enabled, and if so, what port it listens
on. Note that on Fedora with the default SELinux policy, the port must
be labelled either `http_port_t` or `http_cache_port_t`.
HAProxy uses a special configuration block, `resolvers`, to specify
how it should look up names in DNS. This configuration is used for
e.g. dynamically discovering backend servers via DNS A or SRV records.
Since resolvers are global, they need to be specified in the global
configuration file, rather than a per-application drop-in.
We will use this functionality for the ACME HTTP-01 challenge solver
for Samba AD domain controllers.
The current version of *haproxy* packaged in Fedora already enables
configuration via fragments in a drop-in directory, though it uses
a different path by default. I still like separating the global
configuration from the defaults, though, and keeping the main
`haproxy.cfg` file empty.
the `haproxy_ssl_default_bind_options` variable is not defined for
machines running Fedora, because this parameter is not used in the
default configuration file there.
Debian does not support system-wide SSL cipher suite profiles of course,
so these options need to be specified explicitly when deploying HAProxy
on Debian-based machines.
The *haproxy* installs HAproxy and sets up basic configuration for it.
It configures the systemd unit to launch the service with the `-f
/etc/haproxy` arguments, which will cause it to load all files from the
`/etc/haproxy` directory, instead of just `/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg`.
This will allow other roles to add frontend and backend configuration by
adding additional files to this directory.
Dustin