HAProxy Aloha Manager: SSL certificates, redirects and load balancing

2501's HAProxy Aloha Manager specialty manages SSL certificates, redirections and load-balanced services on HAProxy ALOHA load balancers, through ALOHA's own command line. It replaces expiring certificates, sets up HTTPS access and manages the services behind it, within limits you set.

A certificate is close to expiry on a load balancer that fronts many applications, or a new service needs HTTPS and a redirect before it launches. The work is routine, but a key that does not match its certificate takes a site offline, and a change that was never saved quietly disappears at the next reboot.

What 2501 does

The HAProxy ALOHA specialty takes these requests from your ticketing system. It handles certificate problems from creation through renewal to expiry, sets up HTTPS for each service with the right certificate attached, manages load-balanced services, and sets up redirections for services and the servers behind them. A certificate goes into service only with its matching private key and the certificates that vouch for it, and the agent confirms each change took effect before reporting what it changed.

You stay in control

• You choose the level, per specialty: investigate only, act after a person confirms, or act on its own within your rules.
• Your rules decide which services, HTTPS settings and certificates may change unattended, and which need a person first.
• Some actions are never allowed: destructive commands can be blacklisted outright, and the blacklist does not depend on an AI judgment.
• On-prem, cloud or hybrid: 2501 runs wherever you do. On-prem, no data leaves your network.

Frequently asked

Can it replace an expiring certificate? Yes, once the renewed certificate and the files that go with it are available to it. In investigate-only mode it reports the change and makes none.

Will the change survive a reboot? Yes. Changes are saved to the appliance's configuration, not only applied to the running service.

What about nginx, Traefik and other reverse proxies? A separate specialty, Reverse Proxy Manager, covers SSL, access control, redirections and traffic routing on them.

Related

• Guardrails: what an agent may never touch
• Read-only AI investigation
• Reverse Proxy Manager: SSL, access rules and routing on nginx and Traefik
• PaloAlto Manager: PAN-OS security policy, NAT and VPNs