health check passthrough not 100% in combination with haproxy

[Marc]

The haproxy is currently a container that hops around on random servers.


> 
> * Marc, 17.10.21 01:15
> 
> > I have been trying to get a simple health check in haproxy to work.
> But somehome the haproxy request is differently handled then a curl
> request, which generates a socket error in haproxy.
> > [...]
> 
> For stats, you can use "socat" to talk to haproxy's stat socket instead
> of using
> its HTTP interface. For example, with "stats socket
> /var/lib/haproxy/stats" in
> haproxy's config, you can then do:
> 
> echo "show stat" | socat - "UNIX-CONNECT:/var/lib/haproxy/stats"
> 
> Maybe there is a way to also expose your health check status on a local
> socket
> instead of an HTTP listener? This would at least eliminate having to
> deal with
> missing or superfluous CR/LFs, spaces, etc.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> HTH,
> Thomas