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Edge/Reverse Proxies & Load Balancers

Tools for distributing incoming network traffic across multiple servers or services.

26 projects

55,659 contributors

$4B

Envoy

ENVOY IS AN OPEN SOURCE EDGE AND SERVICE PROXY, DESIGNED FOR CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS.

Contributors

9,992

Organizations

2,196

Software value

$3.8B

Traefik

Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. It integrates with existing infrastructure components and automatically configures itself. Traefik handles traffic routing, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, and service discovery across multiple cloud providers and container orchestration platforms.

Contributors

9,564

Organizations

3,380

Software value

$12M

Jackett

Jackett is an API software that acts as a proxy server, translating queries from apps like Sonarr, Radarr, and other media management tools into tracker-site-specific HTTP queries. It allows automated media collections to search multiple torrent trackers through a single standardized interface.

Contributors

6,492

Organizations

542

Software value

$5.7M

Kong

Kong is an open-source API gateway and microservices management layer that acts as a middleware between clients and services. It provides features like authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and logging while handling API traffic.

Contributors

5,312

Organizations

1,280

Software value

$14M

Caddy

Caddy is a fast, multi-platform web server with automatic HTTPS, written in Go. It features automatic SSL certificate acquisition and renewal, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support, and a modular architecture that enables easy configuration and extensibility through plugins.

Contributors

4,868

Organizations

1,798

Software value

$2.2M

Spring Cloud Gateway

An API Gateway built on Spring Framework and Spring Boot providing routing and more.

Contributors

3,692

Organizations

439

Software value

$2.3M

nginx-proxy

An automated nginx reverse proxy for Docker containers that generates reverse proxy configurations for containers on the same network, enabling automatic SSL termination and virtual host routing based on container metadata

Contributors

3,126

Organizations

1,042

Software value

$240K

HAProxy

HAProxy is a high-performance, open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It provides reliability, high availability, and load balancing for web services and infrastructure, supporting features like SSL/TLS termination, health checking, and dynamic configuration.

Contributors

2,181

Organizations

547

Software value

$25K

Ocelot

.NET API Gateway

Contributors

1,828

Organizations

217

Software value

$3M

Apache ShenYu

Apache ShenYu is a Java native API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion and API governance.

Contributors

1,819

Organizations

124

Software value

$11M

Apache Traffic Server

Apache Traffic Server is a high-performance, modular caching proxy server and forward/reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. It can be used to improve web performance by caching frequently-accessed content, load balancing traffic, and providing edge services.

Contributors

1,196

Organizations

160

Software value

$34M

Keepalived

Keepalived is a software project that provides high availability and load balancing for Linux systems. It implements virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) to ensure network service reliability and supports health checking mechanisms for load balanced services.

Contributors

1,148

Organizations

275

Software value

$3M

Fabio

Fabio is a fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) and TCP router for deploying microservices managed by consul. It integrates with consul and vault for service discovery and SSL certificate management, supporting features like traffic shaping, circuit breaking, and blue-green deployments.

Contributors

746

Organizations

235

Software value

$832K

Mcrouter

Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments.

Contributors

692

Organizations

110

Software value

$4M

Skipper

Skipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. It provides advanced routing capabilities, traffic shaping, request filtering, and circuit breaker functionality. The software is designed to handle large-scale production traffic and supports dynamic route updates without restarts.

Contributors

640

Organizations

131

Software value

$5.8M

Varnish Cache

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy and caching server that accelerates web applications by caching and serving content from memory, reducing the load on backend servers and improving response times for end users.

Contributors

597

Organizations

204

Software value

$4.8M

MOSN

MOSN is a cloud-native network proxy and service mesh sidecar written in Go that can be used for service mesh scenarios, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. It provides capabilities for service discovery, load balancing, routing, observability, and multiple protocol support.

Contributors

473

Organizations

88

Software value

$7.4M

Katran

Katran is a high-performance C++ network load balancer built by Facebook, featuring Layer 4 load balancing capabilities, consistent hashing, and support for both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. It leverages XDP (eXpress Data Path) technology for fast packet processing and is designed for large-scale deployments.

Contributors

408

Organizations

59

Software value

$5.7M

BFE

BFE is a modern layer 7 load balancer.

Contributors

298

Organizations

60

Software value

$5.4M

OpenShift Router

Ingress controller for OpenShift

Contributors

248

Organizations

55

Software value

$55M

OpenELB

OpenELB is an open-source load balancer implementation designed for exposing the LoadBalancer type of Kubernetes services in bare metal, edge, and virtualization environments.

Contributors

203

Organizations

61

Software value

$9.7M

MaxScale

An intelligent database proxy.

Contributors

136

Organizations

16

Software value

$30M

Netflix Zuul

Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.

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