Open Source Linux Load Balancers
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View 20 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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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. -
Ship Agents FasterGemini Enterprise Agent Platform lets you rapidly build, scale, govern and optimize production-ready agents grounded in your organization's data. The platform enables developers to build custom or pre-built agents for virtually any use case. New customers get $300 in free credits.
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Elasticsearch Node.js client
Elasticsearch client library for Node.js
Node.js client for Elasticsearch. The client versioning follows the Elastic Stack versioning, this means that major, minor, and patch releases are done following a precise schedule that often does not coincide with the Node.js release times. Language clients are forward compatible; meaning that clients support communicating with greater or equal minor versions of Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch language clients are only backwards compatible with default distributions and without guarantees made. If you are using multiple versions of Elasticsearch, you need to use multiple versions of the client. In the past, install multiple versions of the same package was not possible, but with npm v6.9, you can do that via aliasing. You will require the packages from your code by using the alias you have defined. -
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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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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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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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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. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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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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gRPC-Go
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services. Define your service using Protocol Buffers, a powerful binary serialization toolset and language. Install runtime and dev environments with a single line and also scale to millions of RPCs per second with the framework. Automatically generate idiomatic client and server stubs for your service in a variety of languages and platforms. Bi-directional streaming and fully integrated pluggable authentication with HTTP/2-based transport. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
