Open Source Linux Load Balancers
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frp
A Fast Reverse Proxy
frp stands for exactly what it is: a fast reverse proxy. It helps you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Internet. It is currently under development, but already supports TCP and UDP, as well as HTTP and HTTPS protocols where requests can be forwarded to internal services by domain name. It also has a P2P connect mode and many other nifty features. These include configuration files, environment variables, a dashboard that shows you frp's status and proxies' statistics information, an Admin UI that helps you check and manage frpc's configuration, and many others. -
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RtspSimpleServer
ready-to-use RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / WebRTC server and proxy
rtsp-simple-server is a ready-to-use and zero-dependency server and proxy that allows users to publish, read and proxy live video and audio streams. Publish live streams to the server Read live streams from the server. Proxy streams from other servers or cameras, always or on-demand. Streams are automatically converted from a protocol to another. For instance, it's possible to publish a stream with RTSP and read it with HLS. Serve multiple streams at once in separate paths Authenticate users; use internal or external authentication. Redirect readers to other RTSP servers (load balancing) Query and control the server through an HTTP API. Reload the configuration without disconnecting existing clients (hot reloading) Read Prometheus-compatible metrics. Run external commands when clients connect, disconnect, read or publish streams. Natively compatible with the Raspberry Pi Camera. Compatible with Linux, Windows and macOS, does not require any dependency or interpreter. -
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gost
GO Simple Tunnel, a simple tunnel written in golang
A simple security tunnel written in Golang. Listening on multiple ports, multi-level forward proxies - proxy chain, standard HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2/SOCKS4(A)/SOCKS5 proxy protocols support. Probing resistance support for web proxy, TLS encryption via negotiation support for SOCKS5 proxy. Support multiple tunnel types, tunnel UDP over TCP. Local/remote TCP/UDP port forwarding, TCP/UDP Transparent proxy, Shadowsocks Protocol (TCP/UDP), and SNI Proxy. Permission control, load balancing, route control, DNS resolver and proxy, and TUN/TAP Device. In GOST, GOST and other proxy services are considered as proxy nodes, GOST can handle the requests itself, or forward the requests to any one or more proxy nodes. In addition to configuring services directly from the command line, parameters can also be set by specifying the external configuration file with the -C parameter. -
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RELIANOID
Network Load Balancer and Application Security
RELIANOID is an open core (Debian GNU/Linux based) Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with advanced load balancing features such as Network Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer with SSL offloading, Advance Network Configuration including Virtual Interfaces, VLANs, Bonding with link aggregation, IPv4/IPv6, advanced routing, stateless cluster, web GUI, JSON API and much more! Enterprise Edition Load Balancer is available with extra features such as global service load balancing (gslb), application security including web application firewall (WAF), blacklists, Realtime Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), DDoS protection, stateful clustering, SNMP monitoring, email and SNMP notifications, RBAC, VPN support, and the best Support directly from an expert Team. -
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Npgsql
Npgsql is the .NET data provider for PostgreSQL
Npgsql is an open source ADO.NET Data Provider for PostgreSQL, it allows programs written in C#, Visual Basic, F# to access the PostgreSQL database server. It is implemented in 100% C# code, is free and is open source. An Entity Framework Core provider is also available and exposes some features unique to the PostgreSQL database to EF Core users. Finally, a legacy Entity Framework 6.x (non-Core) provider is also available but is no longer being actively maintained. Npgsql is the open source .NET data provider for PostgreSQL. It allows you to connect and interact with PostgreSQL server using .NET. -
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SKUDONET
SKUDONET Open Source Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall
SKUDONET Community Edition is an Open Source Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall (WAF) designed for Linux server environments. Formerly known as Zevenet, it is based on Debian 12.8, providing a stable and secure foundation for reliable application delivery and cybersecurity. This edition is suitable for Linux and Windows server deployments (not for mobile platforms), offering advanced Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management with support for up to 250,000 TCP requests per second (L4) and 70,000 HTTPS requests per second (L7). SKUDONET Community Edition includes a full REST JSON API for integration into on-premises or hybrid cloud infrastructures, and it is used in thousands of deployments worldwide. Documentation, administration guides, and API references are available at: https://www.skudonet.com/knowledge-base/ -
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cypress
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
The web has evolved. Finally, testing has too. Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Installing Cypress is simple. No dependencies, extra downloads, or changes to your code required. Write tests easily and quickly, and watch them execute in real time as you build your web application. Debugging your tests in CI is as easy as running tests locally. With built in parallelization and load balancing. Record CI test results, screenshots and video, and view aggregated, next-level insights in your dashboard. Build up a suite of CI tests, record their results and gain powerful insights. Install the Cypress Test Runner and write tests locally. Cypress has been made specifically for developers and QA engineers, to help them get more done. Cypress is based on a completely new architecture. No more Selenium. Lots more power. -
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Tengine
A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features
Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including taobao.com and tmall.com. Tengine has been an open source project since December 2011. It is being actively developed by the Tengine team, whose core members are from Taobao, Sogou and other Internet companies. Tengine is a community effort and everyone is encouraged to get involved. All features of nginx-1.18.0 are inherited, i.e., it is 100% compatible with nginx. Support the CONNECT HTTP method for forward proxy. Support asynchronous OpenSSL, using hardware such as QAT for HTTPS acceleration. Enhanced operations monitoring, such as asynchronous log & rollback, DNS caching, memory usage, etc. Support server_name in Stream module. More load balancing methods, e.g., consistent hashing, and session persistence. -
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OpenAS2
AS2 1.1 server implementation in Java
OpenAS2 is a java-based implementation of the EDIINT AS2 standard. It is intended to be used as a server. It is extremely configurable and supports a wide variety of signing and encryption algorithms. Supports very high traffic volume allowing parallel processing of files per partner. SUPPORT: Please use the Github issues and Discussions channels here: https://github.com/OpenAS2/OpenAs2App/ Requirements: - Java 11 or newer (tested with the LTS versions of Java up to 21) - Any OS that runs Java Planned enhancements in the next major release: - User interace configuration GUI - Certificate Exchange Management IMPORTANT: Java 8 is no longer supported. -
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Traefik
An open-source reverse proxy and load balancer
Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, ...) and configures itself automatically and dynamically. Pointing Traefik at your orchestrator should be the only configuration step you need. -
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AWS Load Balancer Controller
A Kubernetes controller for Elastic Load Balancers
AWS Load Balancer Controller is a controller to help manage Elastic Load Balancers for a Kubernetes cluster. It satisfies Kubernetes Ingress resources by provisioning Application Load Balancers. It satisfies Kubernetes Service resources by provisioning Network Load Balancers. This project was formerly known as "AWS ALB Ingress Controller", we rebranded it to be "AWS Load Balancer Controller". AWS ALB Ingress Controller was originated by Ticketmaster and CoreOS as part of Ticketmaster's move to AWS and CoreOS Tectonic. Learn more about Ticketmaster's Kubernetes initiative from Justin Dean's video at Tectonic Summit. AWS ALB Ingress Controller was donated to Kubernetes SIG-AWS to allow AWS, CoreOS, Ticketmaster and other SIG-AWS contributors to officially maintain the project. The controller watches for ingress events from the API server. When it finds ingress resources that satisfy its requirements, it begins the creation of AWS resources. -
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EKS Charts
Amazon EKS Helm chart repository
Networking plugin for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS. appmesh-controller: App Mesh controller Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-prometheus: App Mesh Prometheus Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-grafana: App Mesh Grafana Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-jaeger: App Mesh Jaeger Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-spire-server: App Mesh SPIRE Server Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-spire-agent: App Mesh SPIRE Agent Helm chart for Kubernetes. appmesh-gateway: App Mesh Gateway Helm chart for Kubernetes. -
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Eureka
AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing
Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers. t Netflix, Eureka is used for the following purposes apart from playing a critical part in mid-tier load balancing. For aiding Netflix Asgard, an open source service which makes cloud deployments easier, in fast rollback of versions in case of problems avoiding the re-launch of 100's of instances which could take a long time. In rolling pushes, for avoiding propagation of a new version to all instances in case of problems. For our cassandra deployments to take instances out of traffic for maintenance. For our memcached caching services to identify the list of nodes in the ring. For carrying other additional application specific metadata about services for various other reasons. -
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Fabio
Consul Load-Balancing made simple
Fabio is an HTTP and TCP reverse proxy that configures itself with data from Consul. Traditional load balancers and reverse proxies need to be configured with a config file. The configuration contains the hostnames and paths the proxy is forwarding to upstream services. This process can be automated with tools like consul-template that generate config files and trigger a reload. Fabio works differently since it updates its routing table directly from the data stored in Consul as soon as there is a change and without restart or reloading. When you register a service in Consul all you need to add is a tag that announces the paths the upstream service accepts, e.g. urlprefix-/user or urlprefix-/order and fabio will do the rest. Fabio was developed and maintained by Frank Schröder through January, 2020. Since that date primary maintenance has been the responsibility of ENA and the great community of users. -
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PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer
PM2 (Process Manager 2) is a production process manager with its own built-in load-balancer for Node.js applications. If you want battle-hardened Node.js applications that can be monitored and kept alive forever, PM2 is the way to go. PM2 lets you manage, maintain and increase Node.js performance. It is constantly assailed by over 1800 tests so you can deliver high quality applications, and deploy confidently and more often. PM2 is cross-platform and arguably the most widely-used process manager for Node.js with over 100 million downloads. Setting it up is easy, it just takes a couple of minutes and one simple command. -
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manticoresearch
Easy to use open source fast database for search
Manticore Search is an easy to use open source fast database for search. Modern MPP architecture and smart query parallelization capabilities allow to fully utilize all your CPU cores to lower response time as much as possible, when needed. Powerful and fast full-text searching which works fine for small and big datasets. Columnar storage support via the Manticore Columnar Library for bigger datasets (much bigger than can fit in RAM). SQL-first: Manticore's native syntax is SQL. It speaks SQL over HTTP and uses the MySQL protocol (you can use your preferred MySQL client). JSON over HTTP: to provide a more programmatic way to manage your data and schemas, Manticore provides a HTTP JSON protocol. Written fully in C++: starts fast, doesn't take much RAM, and low-level optimizations provide good performance. Can sync from MySQL/PostgreSQL/ODBC/xml/csv out of the box. Not fully ACID-compliant, but supports transactions and binlog for safe writes. -
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CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins
CoreDNS is a DNS server/forwarder, written in Go, that chains plugins. Each plugin performs a (DNS) function. CoreDNS is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduated project. CoreDNS is a fast and flexible DNS server. The key word here is flexible: with CoreDNS you are able to do what you want with your DNS data by utilizing plugins. If some functionality is not provided out of the box you can add it by writing a plugin. CoreDNS can listen for DNS requests coming in over UDP/TCP (go'old DNS), TLS (RFC 7858), also called DoT, DNS over HTTP/2 - DoH - (RFC 8484) and gRPC (not a standard). Serve zone data from a file; both DNSSEC (NSEC only) and DNS are supported (file and auto). Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e., act as a secondary server (AXFR only) (secondary). Sign zone data on-the-fly (dnssec). Load balancing of responses (loadbalance). Allow for zone transfers, i.e., act as a primary server (file + transfer). Automatically load zone files from disk (auto). -
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Apache Dubbo
A high performance Java RPC framework
Apache Dubbo is a high performance, lightweight, open source RPC framework written in Java. It offers three key functionalities: interface based remote call, load balancing and fault tolerance, and automatic service registration and discovery. Apache Dubbo is built to support multiple service registries and load balancing strategies right out of the box. Due to its micro-kernel and plugin design it can also be easily extended through third-party implementations. Plenty of companies are using Dubbo, and are helping to continually improve it through Dubbo’s improvement initiative, “Wanted: who’s using dubbo”. -
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Envoy
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Envoy is an open source, high-performance edge/middle/service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It was built by Lyft to solve the common problem of networking and observability when moving to a distributed architecture. Envoy is a proxy designed for single services and applications. Aside from that it is also a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. It runs right along with every application, and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. With Envoy, visualizing problem areas becomes a lot easier thanks to consistent observability. It also helps with overall performance tuning, and easily adding substrate features in one place. -
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Kong
The Cloud-Native API Gateway
Kong is a next generation cloud-native API platform for multi-cloud and hybrid organizations. When building for the web, mobile, or Internet of Things, you’ll need a common functionality to run your software, and Kong is that solution. Kong acts as a gateway, connecting microservices requests and APIs natively while also providing load balancing, logging, monitoring, authentication, rate-limiting, and so much more through plugins. Kong is highly extensible as well as platform agnostic, connecting APIs across different environments, platforms and patterns. Achieve architectural freedom with Kong today. -
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Spring Cloud Alibaba
One-stop solution for application development for Alibaba middleware
Spring Cloud Alibaba provides a one-stop solution for distributed application development. It contains all the components required to develop distributed applications, making it easy for you to develop your applications using Spring Cloud. With Spring Cloud Alibaba, you only need to add some annotations and a small amount of configurations to connect Spring Cloud applications to the distributed solutions of Alibaba, and build a distributed application system with Alibaba middleware. Flow control and service degradation: flow control, circuit breaking and system adaptive protection with Alibaba Sentinel. Service registration and discovery: instances can be registered with Alibaba Nacos and clients can discover the instances using Spring-managed beans. Supports Ribbon, the client side load-balancer via Spring Cloud Netflix. Distributed Configuration: using Alibaba Nacos as a data store. -
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FastDFS is an open source high performance DFS ( distributed file system ). It's major functions include: file storing, file syncing and file accessing, and design for high capacity and load balancing.
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Apache APISIX
The cloud-native API gateway
Provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more. Based on the Nginx library and etcd. Cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices. Apache APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system. You can use Apache APISIX as a traffic entrance to process all business data, including dynamic routing, dynamic upstream, dynamic certificates, A/B testing, canary release, blue-green deployment, limit rate, defense against malicious attacks, metrics, monitoring alarms, service observability, service governance, etc. -
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BFE
A modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu
BFE (Beyond Front End) is a modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu. BFE has a builtin plugin framework that makes it possible to develop new features rapidly by writing plugins. BFE is designed to provide every tenant a dedicated share of the instance. Each tenant’s configuration is isolated and remains invisible to other tenants. BFE supports HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, gRPC, WebSocket, TLS, FastCGI, etc. Future support is planned for HTTP/3. BFE provides an advanced domain-specific language to describe routing rules which are easy to understand and maintain. BFE supports global load balancing and distributed load balancing for zone aware balancing, zone level failure resilience, overload protection etc. BFE provides a rich set of plugins for traffic management, security, observability, etc. BFE includes detailed built-in metrics for all subsystems. BFE writes various logs for trouble shooting, data analysis and visualization. BFE also supports distributed tracing. -
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COW
HTTP proxy to automatically identify blocked sites
HTTP proxy written in Go. COW can automatically identify blocked sites and use parent proxies to access. COW's design goal is automation. Ideally, users don't need to care about which websites are inaccessible, and they can directly connect to the website without slowing down the access speed due to the use of secondary agents. As an HTTP proxy, it can be provided to mobile devices; if deployed on a domestic server, it can be used as an APN proxy. Support HTTP, SOCKS5, shadowsocks and cow itself as a secondary proxy. Multiple secondary agents can be used to support simple load balancing. Automatically detect whether the website is blocked, and only use the secondary proxy for the blocked website. Automatically generate PACs containing directly connected websites, you can bypass COW when visiting these websites. Built-in common websites that can be directly connected , such as domestic social, video, bank, e-commerce and other websites (can be added manually).
