linkerd vs Ocelot: What are the differences?

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.

What is Ocelot? A modern fast, scalable API gateway built on ASP.NET core. It is aimed at people using .NET running a micro services / service oriented architecture that need a unified point of entry into their system. However it will work with anything that speaks HTTP and run on any platform that ASP.NET Core supports. It manipulates the HttpRequest object into a state specified by its configuration until it reaches a request builder middleware where it creates a HttpRequestMessage object which is used to make a request to a downstream service.

linkerd and Ocelot belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by linkerd are:

• Adaptive load-balancing
• Fine-grained instrumentation
• Abstractions over service discovery

On the other hand, Ocelot provides the following key features:

• Routing
• Request Aggregation
• Service Discovery with Consul & Eureka

linkerd and Ocelot are both open source tools. linkerd with 5.06K GitHub stars and 512 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ocelot with 4.12K GitHub stars and 903 GitHub forks.