GLBC vs Katran
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katran is a cpp library and bpf program to build high performance layer 4 load balancing forwarding plane. katran leverages XDP infrastructure from the kernel to provide in-kernel facility for fast packet's processing. | It is a GCE L7 load balancer controller that manages external loadbalancers configured through the Kubernetes Ingress API. |
blazing fast (especially w/ XDP in driver mode); performance scaling linearly with a number of NIC's RX queues; RSS friendly encapsulation | Manages external loadbalancers; Configured through the Kubernetes Ingress API |
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GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 1.3K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 316 |
Stacks 3 | Stacks 49 |
Followers 20 | Followers 53 |
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