Tracing follows requests as they move through an entire network, from the initial client request to the final response. In financial services, end-to-end tracing is essential for maintaining robust security, ensuring comprehensive observability of system operations, and understanding chains of events in case of issues or anomalies.

Whether you’re running a service mesh composed of HAProxy instances or facilitating communication between multiple systems, ensuring the authentication of traffic between your services is critical. This zero-trust security model operates under the assumption that you should not extend trust without verification, even within your own systems. By verifying every interaction, you mitigate the risks that arise when third parties imitate your systems.

The popularity of open source software continues to soar alongside growth in cloud usage, including multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Pluralsight's State of Cloud 2023 report revealed that 65% of organizations actively leverage multi-cloud environments. Open source software is prized, in part, because it enables freedom of choice in an organization’s tech stack, especially in complex deployment environments.

HAProxy Enterprise now supports RADIUS load balancing with its new HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module. This blog post addresses some of the challenges with implementing RADIUS load balancing and how you can get started with the new module below.