DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs Envoy vs Traefik

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DigitalOcean Load Balancer

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Envoy

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Traefik

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Pros of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
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      GRPC-Web
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      Kubernetes integration
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      Watch service discovery updates
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      Letsencrypt support
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      Swarm integration
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      Several backends
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      Ready-to-use dashboard
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      Easy setup
    • 4
      Rancher integration
    • 1
      Mesos integration
    • 1
      Mantl integration

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    Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
    Cons of Envoy
    Cons of Traefik
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      No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support
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        Complicated setup
      • 7
        Not very performant (fast)

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      What is 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.

      What is 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.

      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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