Migrate HAProxy to VM and upgrade

I’m ready to retire our ageing physical load-balancer and would like an experienced HAProxy engineer to spin up a fresh virtual machine and mirror the current service on it.

What I need copied over is the complete HAProxy configuration together with all SSL certificates and the small monitoring/logging stack that feeds our dashboards and alerts. The new VM should run on Ubuntu or Debian—whichever you prefer—while keeping version parity with the existing HAProxy package unless you recommend and justify an upgrade.

I plan to keep the physical box online while the new VM is brought up so we can run both environments side by side. That will let us compare logs, latency and error rates before the final DNS cut-over. Please include a simple rollback plan in case anything unexpected appears during that parallel run.

Deliverables
• Provisioned Ubuntu or Debian VM with HAProxy installed
• Migrated configuration, SSL keys/certs, and current monitoring/logging hooks
• Validation tests proving the configs match production behaviour
• Step-by-step hand-over notes covering cut-over and rollback

I can provide SSH access to the existing server and our virtualization platform upon kickoff. If this sounds straightforward to you, let’s get started.