Dynamic configuration in a virtualised cloud environment

Hi all,

I've recently set-up an environment on Amazon EC2 with an HAProxy box pointing at multiple web servers (Windows/IIS).

EC2 is great because it means I can have a web-server image, and start as many as I want based on the current load. But it means as I start / stop each server I have to find the server's internal IP and edit HAProxy's config to add/remove its entry in the multiple backends.

Does anyone have any experience with a dynamic configuration for HAProxy? I want the servers to be able to register/deregister themselves as they are added to the pool, and add themselves to various backends (multiple backends per server). I can use Windows' normal scripting languages/PowerShell, and I have a SQL db in the environment too.

The HAProxy is running on Fedora at the moment, but I am also considering Ubuntu.

Is this something that's commonly done? I know RightScale offer similar scripts when you are a paying customer.

Thanks,

Pete

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