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HAProxy vs Keepalived: What are the differences?
Developers describe HAProxy as "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. On the other hand, Keepalived is detailed as "A routing software written in C". The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.
HAProxy can be classified as a tool in the "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category, while Keepalived is grouped under "Open Source Service Discovery".
Instagram, Dropbox, and Medium are some of the popular companies that use HAProxy, whereas Keepalived is used by Gini, Groupe La Poste, and utry. HAProxy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 602 company stacks & 1060 developers stacks; compared to Keepalived, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Pros of HAProxy
- Load balancer130
- High performance101
- 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
- Work with NTLM2
- Ssl offloading2
- Simple2
- Available as a plugin for OPNsense1
Pros of Keepalived
- 2 nodes HA cluster management1
- Extremely fast (IPVS)1
- Virtual IP HA with VRRP1
- Load Balancer1
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Cons of HAProxy
- Becomes your single point of failure6
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