## Description
Learn to setup and use a HAProxy container  on Podman.

> **Important:**  This deployment takes approximately 3-5 minutes to finish after launch.  Therefore, you might want to step away while this runs and then return to complete the lab.

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## Lab Overview
Provides 4 nodes for the HAProxy deployment.  Consisting of 1 node running HAProxy and 3 nodes serving the web application that HAProxy load balances between.  All four nodes are initially configured with an Oracle Linux system provisioned with the following:

  - A non-root user named _oracle_ user account with sudo privileges on each node

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> **Note:** When using the free lab environment, see [Oracle Linux Lab Basics](https://luna.oracle.com/lab/c84a78db-4e92-4a58-86d1-a332bf47f99a/steps) for connection and other usage instructions.


## Intended Audience
Developer, IT Administrator, DevOps Engineer

## Level
Intermediate

## Services
Oracle Linux

## Technologies
Podman, HAProxy, Load Balancer

## Changelog
Mar 07, 2023 - Initial version