Where is the keepalived and HAProxy documentation for RHEL 8 and later?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later
  • Load Balancer software:
    • keepalived
    • HAProxy

Issue

Resolution

  • Documentation can be found under /usr/share/doc which is provided by the rpm package
  • If you prefer online, please refer to the upstream documentation:

Keepalived

HAProxy

Root Cause

The upstream HAProxy and keepalived open source projects already have high quality documentation which is well maintained by the developers.

Red Hat's load balancer product management do not feel we could add any significant value to this, so we elect to refer to the upstream documentation to provide the best customer experience.

These reasons were discussed with load balancer development on:

  • Red Hat Private Bug 2103358 - Keeplived/haproxy documentation missing in RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.

Diagnostic Steps

Documentation under /usr/share/doc is provided by respective rpm package :

# rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/keepalived/
keepalived-2.1.5-8.el8.x86_64

# rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/haproxy/
haproxy-1.8.27-5.el8.x86_64
# cat /usr/share/doc/haproxy/VERSION 
1.8.27

# head -15 /usr/share/doc/haproxy/configuration.txt
                         ----------------------
                                HAProxy
                          Configuration Manual
                         ----------------------
                              version 1.8
                             willy tarreau
                              2020/11/06


This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
specified above. It does not provide any hints, examples, or advice. For such
documentation, please refer to the Reference Manual or the Architecture Manual.
The summary below is meant to help you find sections by name and navigate
through the document.

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