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GLBC vs Traefik: What are the differences?
What is GLBC? Ingress controller for Google Cloud. It is a GCE L7 load balancer controller that manages external loadbalancers configured through the Kubernetes Ingress API.
What is Traefik? Load Balancer for Microservices. Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
GLBC and Traefik can be primarily classified as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
GLBC and Traefik are both open source tools. Traefik with 23.7K GitHub stars and 2.48K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than GLBC with 779 GitHub stars and 173 GitHub forks.
Pros of GLBC
Pros of Traefik
- Kubernetes integration20
- Watch service discovery updates18
- Letsencrypt support14
- Swarm integration13
- Several backends12
- Ready-to-use dashboard6
- Easy setup4
- Rancher integration4
- Mesos integration1
- Mantl integration1
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Cons of GLBC
Cons of Traefik
- Complicated setup7
- Not very performant (fast)7