RPM builder for HAProxy 2.9 (CentOS/RHEL 6/7/8/9)

Build latest HAProxy binary with prometheus metrics support

HAProxy 2.9.6 2024/02/26

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

CentOS7

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

CentOS8

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

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 (for CentOS8/9 replaсe yum to dnf):

sudo yum -y install /opt/HAProxy-2-RPM-builder/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/haproxy-2.9.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

or, if you build *.rpm with Docker:

sudo yum -y install RPMS/haproxy-2.9.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm 

Check after install:

haproxy -v

Stats page

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

Common problem:

:o: 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

:o: Cannot chroot1

[/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

:o: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘AppStream’ (CentOS8/9)

Solution:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
sudo sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*