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Proxies

Hussein Nasser via YouTube

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This course explains forward proxies, reverse proxies, proxy layers, TLS termination, HTTP tunneling, and load balancing. It demonstrates these concepts with HAProxy, Nginx, Varnish, Traefik, Envoy, and high-availability cluster configurations.

Syllabus

Proxy vs Reverse Proxy Server Explained.
Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy (Explained by Example).
VPN vs Proxy Explained Pros and Cons.
What is an HTTP Proxy? (Transparent, HTTP and Service Mesh Proxy examples).
Load Balancer vs Reverse Proxy (Explained by Example).
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Proxying In Details Explained with Examples.
SSL/TLS Termination, TLS Forward Proxy Pros and Cons.
Varnish - HTTP Accelerator Crash Course.
HAProxy Crash Course (TLS 1.3, HTTPS, HTTP/2 and more).
NginX Crash Course (Layer 4 & Layer 7 Proxy, HTTPS, TLS 1.3, HTTP/2 & More).
Fail-over and High-Availability (Explained by Example).
The Bare-Bones of a Service Mesh Proxy.
Scaling and Securing WebSockets with HAProxy.
Sidecar Proxy Pros & Cons (Explained by Example).
Setup Active-Passive Cluster with Keepalived & HAProxy (Two raspberry pis).
Active-Active vs Active-Passive Cluster to Achieve High Availability in Scaling Systems.
What is a DDOS Mitigating Reverse Proxy and is it Worth It? (Commenting on a Security Now Video).
Traefik Crash Course (Without docker).
NginX Crash Course.
Envoy Proxy Crash Course, Architecture, L7 & L4 Proxying, HTTP/2, Enabling TLS 1.2/1.3 and more.
How HTTP Tunneling works, The CONNECT method, Pros & Cons and more.
Envoy Proxy Fixes Two Zero Day vulnerabilities (UDP Proxy, TCP Proxy) - CVE-2020-35470.
Capture, Analyze and Debug HTTPS traffic with MITMProxy.
Load Balance multiple RTMP Servers to Horizontally Scale Streaming (Node Media Server and HAProxy).
How timeouts can make or break your Backend load balancers.
Getting Started with HAProxy Runtime API to Remove Backends for Maintenance Remotely and More.
Can you Max-out the Connections between Load Balancer and Backend Servers?.

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Hussein Nasser

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