Kong - The Microservice API Gateway

•    Lua

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Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.

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gobetween - :cloud: Modern & minimalistic load balancer for the Сloud era

•    Go

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gobetween - modern & minimalistic load balancer and reverse-proxy for the ☁️ Cloud era. Current status: Under active development. Currently in use in several highy loaded production environments.

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fabio - A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul

•    Go

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fabio is a fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) and TCP router for deploying applications managed by consul.Register your services in consul, provide a health check and fabio will start routing traffic to them. No configuration required. Deployment, upgrading and refactoring has never been easier. It integrates with Consul, Vault, Amazon ELB, Amazon API Gateway and more.

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rocky - Full-featured, middleware-oriented, programmatic HTTP and WebSocket proxy for node.js

•    Javascript

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A multipurpose, full-featured, middleware-oriented and hackable HTTP/S and WebSocket proxy with powerful built-in features such as versatile routing layer, traffic interceptor and replay to multiple backends, built-in balancer, traffic retry/backoff logic, hierarchical configuration, among others. Built for node.js/io.js.rocky can be fluently used programmatically or via command-line interface. It's framework agnostic, but you can optionally plug in with connect/express apps.

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weaver - An Advanced HTTP Reverse Proxy with Dynamic Sharding Strategies

•    Go

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Weaver is a Layer-7 Load Balancer with Dynamic Sharding Strategies. It is a modern HTTP reverse proxy with advanced features. Weaver uses etcd as a control plane to match the incoming requests against a particular route config and shard the traffic to different backends based on some sharding strategy.

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Nginx - HTTP and reverse proxy server

•    C

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Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. It supports accelerated reverse proxying with caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance, SSL and TLS SNI support, Name-based and IP-based virtual servers and lot more.

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vulcand - Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd

•    Go

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Vulcand is a programmatic extendable proxy for microservices and API management. It is inspired by Hystrix and powers Mailgun microservices infrastructure.Vulcand is focused on microservices and API use-cases.

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node-http-proxy - A full-featured http proxy for NodeJS

•    Javascript

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node-http-proxy is an HTTP programmable proxying library that supports websockets. It is suitable for implementing components such as reverse proxies and load balancers. When a request is proxied it follows two different pipelines, The first pipeline (incoming) is responsible for the creation and manipulation of the stream that connects your client to the target. The second pipeline (outgoing) is responsible for the creation and manipulation of the stream that, from your target, returns data to the client.

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redbird - A modern reverse proxy for node

•    Javascript

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Handling dynamic virtual hosts, load balancing, proxying web sockets and SSL encryption should be easy and robust.With redbird you get a complete library to build dynamic reverse proxies with the speed and robustness of http-proxy.

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Swarmlet - A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service

•    Shell

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Swarmlet is a self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service that enables easy swarm deployments, load balancing, automatic SSL, metrics, analytics and more. Swarmlet uses Traefik, Consul and Let's Encrypt to provide automatic SSL and load balancing on your apps. Swarmlet is nothing more than a thin wrapper around Docker commands. It builds applications, stores them in a local or custom registry and deploys them on your swarm.

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Envoy - C++ front/service proxy

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As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

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marathon-lb - Marathon-lb is a service discovery & load balancing tool for DC/OS

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Marathon-lb is a tool for managing HAProxy, by consuming Marathon's app state. HAProxy is a fast, efficient, battle-tested, highly available load balancer with many advanced features which power a number of high-profile websites. Take a look at the marathon-lb wiki for example usage, templates, and more.

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OpenLiteSpeed - High performance, lightweight, HTTP server

•    C++

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OpenLiteSpeed is a high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies. It is event driven and it can handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections without load spikes.

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muguet - DNS Server & Reverse proxy for Docker - Compatible with docker-compose, boot2docker and docker-machine

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When using Docker, it's sometimes a pain to access your containers using specific IPs/ports. Muguet provides you with a DNS Server that resolves auto-generated hostnames to your containers IPs, plus a Reverse Proxy to access all your web apps on port 80.

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linkerd - Resilient service mesh for cloud native apps

•    Scala

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Linkerd is a transparent service mesh, designed to make modern applications safe and sane by transparently adding service discovery, load balancing, failure handling, instrumentation, and routing to all inter-service communication.linkerd (pronouned "linker-DEE") acts as a transparent HTTP/gRPC/thrift/etc proxy, and can usually be dropped into existing applications with a minimum of configuration, regardless of what language they're written in. It works with many common protocols and service discovery backends, including scheduled environments like Mesos and Kubernetes.

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contour - Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller for Lyft's Envoy proxy.

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Contour is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that works by deploying the Envoy proxy as a reverse proxy and load balancer. Unlike other Ingress controllers, Contour supports dynamic configuration updates out of the box while maintaining a lightweight profile. Contour also introduces a new ingress API (IngressRoute) which is implemented via a Custom Resource Definition (CRD). Its goal is to expand upon the functionality of the Ingress API to allow for a richer user experience as well as solve shortcomings in the original design.

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minuteman - A distributed Load Balancer

•    Erlang

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A distributed, highly available service discovery & internal load balancer for distributed systems (microservices and containers). You can use the layer 4 load balancer by specifying a VIP from the Marathon UI. The VIP must be specified in the format IP:port, for example: 10.1.2.3:5000. Alternatively, if you're using something other than Marathon, you can create a label on the port protocol buffer while launching a task on Mesos. This label's key must be in the format VIP_$IDX, where $IDX is replaced by a number, starting from 0. Once you create a task, or a set of tasks with a VIP, they will automatically become available to all nodes in the cluster, including the masters.

Skipper - An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition

•    Go

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Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. It's designed to handle >100k HTTP route definitions with detailed lookup conditions, and flexible augmentation of the request flow with filters. It can be used out of the box or extended with custom lookup, filter logic and configuration sources.Skipper provides a default executable command with a few built-in filters. However, its primary use case is to be extended with custom filters, predicates or data sources.

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nixy - nixy - nginx auto configuration and service discovery for Mesos/Marathon

•    Go

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Nixy is a daemon that automatically configures Nginx for web services deployed on Apache Mesos and Marathon. Install nixy from pre-compiled packages. Check releases page.

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YXORP - Reverse proxy for the HTTP protocol

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yxorp is a reverse proxy and application level firewall for the HTTP protocol. It can do all kinds of checks on HTTP traffic, and is highly configurable. It also has other functions that are useful for a web frontend, like load balancing. It aims to conform to RFC 2616, RFC 2518, RFC 2109 and other applicable standards.

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