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HAProxy vs linkerd: What are the differences?

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.

What is linkerd? Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices. linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.

HAProxy belongs to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack, while linkerd can be primarily classified under "Microservices Tools".

linkerd is an open source tool with 5.01K GitHub stars and 501 GitHub forks. Here's a link to linkerd's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of HAProxy

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Load balancer
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High performance
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Very fast
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Proxying for tcp and http
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SSL termination
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Open source
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Reliable
20
Free
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Well-Documented
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Very popular
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Runs health checks on backends
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Suited for very high traffic web sites
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Scalable
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Ready to Docker
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Powers many world's most visited sites
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Simple
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Ssl offloading
2
Work with NTLM
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Available as a plugin for OPNsense
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Redis

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CNCF Project
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Service Mesh
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Fast Integration
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Pre-check permissions
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Light Weight

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Cons of HAProxy

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Becomes your single point of failure

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What is 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.

What is linkerd?

linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.

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What are some alternatives to HAProxy and linkerd?

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

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.

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.

Squid

Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.

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