layer 4 load balancer

Things to install:

• Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Verify that Homebrew is installed by running:

brew --version

• HAProxy

Use Homebrew to install HAProxy by running the following command:

brew install haproxy

Verify that HAProxy was installed correctly:

haproxy -v

To start HAProxy server:

haproxy -f haproxy/haproxy.cfg

To check if HAProxy server is running on port 5009:

 lsof -i :5009 -P

To kill the HAProxy server --> kill of HAProxy process from above command