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nowthatsamatt
Asked: 2019-08-02 10:03:36 +0800 CST

Installing the Data Plane API in the HAProxy Process Manager

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I'm trying to start the Data Plane API on HAProxy boot using the instructions detailed here: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/1-9r1/configuration/dataplaneapi/#using-the-haproxy-process-manager

My issue is I get this:

$ curl -X GET --user admin:mypassword "http://localhost:5555/v1/services/haproxy/info"
{"code":500,"message":"dial unix unix@/run/haproxy-master.sock: connect: no such file or directory"}

Which is odd because the file exists here:

$ ls -lah /run/haproxy-master.sock
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jul 31 18:05 /run/haproxy-master.sock

And the process is running as the root user, so it should be able to see it:

$ sudo systemctl status haproxy.service
[sudo] password for user:
● haproxy.service - HAProxy Load Balancer
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/haproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-07-31 18:05:49 -05; 18h ago
     Docs: man:haproxy(1)
           file:/usr/share/doc/haproxy/configuration.txt.gz
  Process: 22227 ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 22739 ExecReload=/usr/sbin/haproxy -f $CONFIG -c -q $EXTRAOPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 24307 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/haproxy -f $CONFIG -c -q $EXTRAOPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 24335 (haproxy)
    Tasks: 12 (limit: 4418)
   CGroup: /system.slice/haproxy.service
           ├─24335 /usr/sbin/haproxy -Ws -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -S /run/haproxy-master.sock
           ├─24339 dataplaneapi --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5555 --haproxy-bin /usr/sbin/haproxy --config-file /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg --reload-cmd systemctl reload haproxy --reload-delay 5 --userlist controller
           └─24341 /usr/sbin/haproxy -Ws -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -S /run/haproxy-master.sock

Jul 31 18:05:47 lb01.private systemd[1]: Starting HAProxy Load Balancer...
Jul 31 18:05:48 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: [WARNING] 211/180548 (24335) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:33]: 'option httplog' overrides previous 'log-format' in 'defaults' section.
Jul 31 18:05:48 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: [WARNING] 211/180548 (24335) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:117]: keyword 'forceclose' is deprecated in favor of 'httpclose', and will not be supported by future versions.
Jul 31 18:05:49 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: [NOTICE] 211/180548 (24335) : New program 'api' (24339) forked
Jul 31 18:05:49 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: [NOTICE] 211/180548 (24335) : New worker #1 (24341) forked
Jul 31 18:05:49 lb01.private systemd[1]: Started HAProxy Load Balancer.
Jul 31 18:05:51 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: dial unix unix@/run/haproxy-master.sock: connect: no such file or directory
Jul 31 18:06:40 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: dial unix unix@/run/haproxy-master.sock: connect: no such file or directory
Aug 01 12:36:07 lb01.private haproxy[24335]: dial unix unix@/run/haproxy-master.sock: connect: no such file or directory

Here are what I think the relevant bits of my haproxy.cfg file are:

global
    stats socket /run/haproxy.sock user haproxy group haproxy mode 660 level admin

userlist controller
    user admin insecure-password mypassword

program api
    command dataplaneapi --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5555 --haproxy-bin /usr/sbin/haproxy --config-file /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg --reload-cmd "systemctl reload haproxy" --reload-delay 5 --userlist controller

I fully understand that the "stats socket" declaration says /run/haproxy.sock, I've tried changing that to /run/haproxy-master.sock and restarting it as well. Same error. Not sure where the haproxy-master.sock file is coming from, guessing it's a default?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    /run/haproxy-master.sock is started as a socket when systemd runs haproxy:

    24335 usr/sbin/haproxy -Ws -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /run/haproxy.pid -S /run/haproxy-master.sock

    If not configured on the command line, dataplaneapi picks it up using env variables passed to the child process from the master, specifically from HAPROXY_MWORKER and HAPROXY_MASTER_CLI variables. Why it fails to read it is beyond me here.

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  2. Ran into the same problem...

    Seems like this is influenced by systemd presets. Observed, that the problem was gone when starting haproxy from the cli directly w/o further parameters.

    # grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS"

# systemctl cat haproxy.service | grep sock
Environment="CONFIG=/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg" "PIDFILE=/run/haproxy.pid" "EXTRAOPTS=-S /run/haproxy-master.sock"

# haproxy -d -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

    You can verify this by comparing the active unix sockets when haproxy has started from the cli or with systemd using

    # netstat -axe  | grep haproxy.*sock

    Make your changes accordingly :)

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