Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
HAProxy vs Semaphore: What are the differences?
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; Semaphore: The continuous integration and delivery platform powering the world’s best engineering teams. Semaphore is the fastest continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform on the market, powering the world’s best engineering teams.
HAProxy and Semaphore are primarily classified as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" and "Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
"Load balancer" is the primary reason why developers consider HAProxy over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Semaphore.
According to the StackShare community, HAProxy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 457 company stacks & 211 developers stacks; compared to Semaphore, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
Pros of HAProxy
- Load balancer131
- High performance102
- 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
- Simple3
- Work with NTLM2
- Ssl offloading2
- Available as a plugin for OPNsense1
Pros of Semaphore
- Easy setup20
- Fast builds15
- Free for private github repos14
- Great customer support8
- Free for open source6
- Organizations ready5
- Slack integration4
- SSH debug access2
- GitHub Integration2
- Easy to use1
- Continuous Deployment1
- Pipeline builder GUI1
- BitBucket integration1
- Docker support1
- Simple UI1
- Parallelism1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of HAProxy
- Becomes your single point of failure6