diff --git a/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/hup_haproxy.yaml b/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/hup_haproxy.yaml
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+++ b/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/hup_haproxy.yaml
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+# This is necessary because podman kill -s HUP doesn't currently work on
+# Ubuntu Noble. They appear tohave fixed this for other common signals (see
+# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpod/+bug/2040483 ) but not
+# for HUP. To work around this we use kill directly against the container
+# process.
+#
+# Note that we need the first docker-compose ps here as the container name
+# is different between docker-compose and docker compose.
+- name: Get haproxy container ID
+  command: docker-compose ps -q haproxy
+  args:
+    chdir: /etc/haproxy-docker/
+  register: docker_ps
+
+- name: Get haproxy container pid
+  command: "{{ cmd_str }} {{ docker_ps.stdout }}"
+  vars:
+    cmd_str: !unsafe "docker inspect --format '{{ .State.Pid }}'"
+  register: docker_inspect
+
+- name: Send HUP to haproxy
+  command: kill -s HUP {{ docker_inspect.stdout }}
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/main.yaml
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--- a/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/haproxy/handlers/main.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 - name: Reload haproxy
-  shell:
-    cmd: docker-compose kill -s HUP haproxy
-    chdir: /etc/haproxy-docker/
+  include_tasks: roles/haproxy/handlers/hup_haproxy.yaml