Træfic
Træfic is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. It was designed to support microservices. It works with many backends, including Kubernetes, to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically. This is a game changer compared to traditional load balancers. It has an impressive list of features:
- It's fast
- Single Go executable
- Tiny official Docker image
- Rest API
- Hot-reloading of configuration; no need to restart the process
- Circuit breakers, retry
- Round Robin, rebalancer load-balancers
- Metrics (Rest, Prometheus, Datadog, Statsd, InfluxDB)
- Clean AngularJS Web UI
- Websocket, HTTP/2, GRPC ready
- Access Logs (JSON, CLF)
- Let's Encrypt support (Automatic HTTPS with renewal)
- High availability with cluster mode