AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) vs Fly vs Traefik

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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Pros of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
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Pros of Traefik
  • 48
    Easy
  • 8
    ASG integration
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    Reliability
  • 1
    Coding
  • 0
    SSL offloading
  • 2
    Service Worker
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    Automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt
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    Load balancer
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    Edge
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    API Gateway
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    Extremely versatile
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    JavaScript
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    Kubernetes integration
  • 18
    Watch service discovery updates
  • 14
    Letsencrypt support
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    Swarm integration
  • 12
    Several backends
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    Ready-to-use dashboard
  • 4
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Rancher integration
  • 1
    Mesos integration
  • 1
    Mantl integration

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Cons of AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
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        Not very performant (fast)
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        Complicated setup

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      What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

      With Elastic Load Balancing, you can add and remove EC2 instances as your needs change without disrupting the overall flow of information. If one EC2 instance fails, Elastic Load Balancing automatically reroutes the traffic to the remaining running EC2 instances. If the failed EC2 instance is restored, Elastic Load Balancing restores the traffic to that instance. Elastic Load Balancing offers clients a single point of contact, and it can also serve as the first line of defense against attacks on your network. You can offload the work of encryption and decryption to Elastic Load Balancing, so your servers can focus on their main task.

      What is Fly?

      Deploy apps through our global load balancer with minimal shenanigans. All Fly-enabled applications get free SSL certificates, accept traffic through our global network of datacenters, and encrypt all traffic from visitors through to application servers.

      What is Traefik?

      A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

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      What are some alternatives to AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Fly, and Traefik?
      HAProxy
      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.
      Envoy
      Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
      DigitalOcean Load Balancer
      Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability.
      GLBC
      It is a GCE L7 load balancer controller that manages external loadbalancers configured through the Kubernetes Ingress API.
      F5 BIG-IP
      It ensures that applications are always secure and perform the way they should. You get built-in security, traffic management, and performance application services, whether your applications live in a private data center or in the cloud.
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