Open Source Linux Load Balancers
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View 21 business solutionsBrowse free open source Load Balancers and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Load Balancers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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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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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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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GoProxy
High performance proxy server implemented by golang
The GoProxy is a high-performance http proxy, https proxy, socks5 proxy, ss proxy, websocket proxies, tcp proxies, udp proxies, game shield, game proxies. Supports forward proxies, reverse proxy, transparent proxy, internet nat proxies, https proxy load balancing, http proxy load balancing , socks5 proxies load balancing, socket proxy load balancing, ss proxy load balancing, TCP / UDP port mapping, SSH transit, TLS encrypted transmission, protocol conversion, anti-pollution DNS proxy, API authentication, speed limit, limit connection. Reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet so that you or your visitors can access it directly and easily. Chained proxies, the program itself can be used as a proxy, and if it is set up, it can be used as a secondary proxy or even an N-level proxy. -
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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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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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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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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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Go MySQL Driver
MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
Lightweight and fast, native Go implementation. No C-bindings, just pure Go. Connections over TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6, Unix domain sockets or custom protocols. Automatic handling of broken connections, as well as automatic Connection Pooling (by database/sql package). Supports queries larger than 16MB. Full sql.RawBytes support. It provides intelligent LONG DATA handling in prepared statements. Secure LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE support with file allowlisting and io.Reader support. Optional time.Time parsing, as well as optional placeholder interpolation. db.SetConnMaxLifetime() is required to ensure connections are closed by the driver safely before connection is closed by MySQL server, OS, or other middlewares. Since some middlewares close idle connections by 5 minutes, we recommend timeout shorter than 5 minutes. This setting helps load balancing and changing system variables too. -
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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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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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ClickHouse Go
Golang driver for ClickHouse
Golang SQL database client for ClickHouse. There are two version of this client, v1 and v2, available as separate branches. v1 is now in a state of maintenance, we will only accept PRs for bug and security fixes. Uses ClickHouse native format for optimal performance. Utilizes low level ch-go client for encoding/decoding and compression (versions >= 2.3.0). Supports native ClickHouse TCP client-server protocol. Compatibility with database/sql (slower than native interface!). Database/sql supports http protocol for transport. (Experimental). Marshal rows into structs (ScanStruct, Select). Unmarshal struct to row (AppendStruct). Connection pool Failover and load balancing. Bulk write support (for database/sql use begin->prepare->(in loop exec)->commit). AsyncInsert, named and numeric placeholders support. LZ4/ZSTD compression support. External data. -
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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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ExternalDNS
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and other
ExternalDNS synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers. Inspired by Kubernetes DNS, Kubernetes' cluster-internal DNS server, ExternalDNS makes Kubernetes resources discoverable via public DNS servers. Like KubeDNS, it retrieves a list of resources (Services, Ingresses, etc.) from the Kubernetes API to determine the desired list of DNS records. Unlike KubeDNS, however, it's not a DNS server itself, but merely configures other DNS providers accordingly, e.g. AWS Route 53 or Google Cloud DNS. In a broader sense, ExternalDNS allows you to control DNS records dynamically via Kubernetes resources in a DNS provider-agnostic way. ExternalDNS' allows you to keep selected zones (via domain-filter) synchronized with Ingresses and Services of type=LoadBalancer in various cloud providers. ExternalDNS can become aware of the records it is managing therefore ExternalDNS can safely manage non-empty hosted zones. -
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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). -
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Cilium
eBPF-based networking, security, and observability
Cilium is open-source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads, cloud-native, and fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF. Kubernetes doesn't come with an implementation of Load Balancing. This is usually left as an exercise for your cloud provider or in private cloud environments an exercise for your networking team. Cilium can attract this traffic with BGP and accelerate leveraging XDP and eBPF. Together these technologies provide a very robust and secure implementation of Load Balancing. Cilium and eBPF operate at the kernel layer. With this level of context we can make intelligent decisions about how to connect different workloads whether on the same node or between clusters. With eBPF and XDP Cilium enables significant improvements in latency and performance and eliminates the need for kube-proxy entirely. -
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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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Easegress
A Cloud Native traffic orchestration system
The Easegres (formally known as Ease Gateway) helps to enlarge the availability and stability, also can improve the performance without changing a line of code. It also can smoothly support rapid business growth without re-arch the whole system. Easegress can be a typical seven-level API Gateway, it also can be a side-car to be a Service Mesh, and Easegress can perfectly work with other software to ship powerful features, such as: Kubernetes Ingress, Knaitve FaaS, and Eureka/Consul/Etcd/Nacos and so on. The Easegress can management the traffic and APIs, not only can do load balancing, canary development but also can aggregate and pipeline a number of APIs. This function automatically helps the website optimize its performance, such as: adding the cache, merging the requests, and reducing the network bandwidth. Sometimes, a site could have unexpectedly higher traffic, the Ease Gateway could help to protect the critical service for critical customers. -
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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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Origin
Community Distribution of Kubernetes
Origin, also known as OKD is the community distribution of Kubernetes that has been optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. It adds developer and operations-centred tools to Kubernetes to speed up application development and simplify deployment, scaling, as well as long-term lifecycle maintenance. It also makes it easier to launch Kubernetes on any cloud or bare metal and run and update clusters, while providing all the necessary tools for creating successful containerized applications. -
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Zappa - Serverless Python
Serverless Python
Zappa makes it super easy to build and deploy server-less, event-driven Python applications (including, but not limited to, WSGI web apps) on AWS Lambda + API Gateway. Think of it as "serverless" web hosting for your Python apps. That means infinite scaling, zero downtime, zero maintenance - and at a fraction of the cost of your current deployments! With a traditional HTTP server, the server is online 24/7, processing requests one by one as they come in. If the queue of incoming requests grows too large, some requests will time out. With Zappa, each request is given its own virtual HTTP "server" by Amazon API Gateway. AWS handles the horizontal scaling automatically, so no requests ever time out. Each request then calls your application from a memory cache in AWS Lambda and returns the response via Python's WSGI interface. After your app returns, the "server" dies. -
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Zuul
Gateway service providing dynamic routing, monitoring and more
Zuul is an L7 application gateway that offers many capabilities, including dynamic routing, monitoring, security, resiliency and more. It is used in the backend of the Netflix streaming service as a front door for all requests from devices and web sites. Zuul is ideal for cases like this where API traffic volume and diversity can become overwhelming and cause production issues to arise suddenly and without warning. Zuul has a broad range of filters that enable it to perform multiple functions quickly and apply functionality to services like Netflix. These functions include security authentication, dynamic routing, stress testing, load shedding and more. -
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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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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/
