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Apache CloudStack vs HAProxy: What are the differences?
What is Apache CloudStack? Open Source Cloud Computing. Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
What is HAProxy? The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Apache CloudStack belongs to "Open Source Cloud" category of the tech stack, while HAProxy can be primarily classified under "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy".
"Apache CloudStack works" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Apache CloudStack, while over 117 developers mention "Load balancer" as the leading cause for choosing HAProxy.
Apache CloudStack is an open source tool with 746 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache CloudStack's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Apache CloudStack
- Apache CloudStack works15
- Multi hypervisor13
- Easy setup10
- Real open source software9
- Open architecture9
- Hybrid Cloud integration8
- Community support8
- Simple7
- Secure7
- Scalable5
- Easy to use API2
- Kubernetes Support1
- Terraform Support1
Pros of HAProxy
- Load balancer133
- High performance102
- Very fast69
- Proxying for tcp and http58
- SSL termination55
- Open source31
- Reliable27
- Free20
- Well-Documented18
- Very popular12
- Runs health checks on backends7
- Suited for very high traffic web sites7
- Scalable6
- Ready to Docker5
- Powers many world's most visited sites4
- Simple3
- Ssl offloading2
- Work with NTLM2
- Available as a plugin for OPNsense1
- Redis1
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Cons of Apache CloudStack
Cons of HAProxy
- Becomes your single point of failure6
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