What is Vulcand?
Vulcand is a programmatic extendable proxy for microservices and API management. It is inspired by Hystrix and powers Mailgun microservices infrastructure.
Vulcand is a tool in the Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy category of a tech stack.
Vulcand is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Vulcand's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Vulcand?
Vulcand Integrations
Vulcand's Features
- Uses Etcd as a configuration backend.
- API and command line tool.
- Pluggable middlewares.
- Support for canary deploys, realtime metrics and resiliency.
Vulcand Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Vulcand?
Vulcan
Vulcan is an API-compatible alternative to Prometheus. It aims to provide a better story for long-term storage, data durability, high cardinality metrics, high availability, and scalability. Vulcan is much more complex to operate, but should integrate with ease to an existing Prometheus environment.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere