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Alternatives to Zuul

Apigee, Eureka, Kong, HAProxy, and Istio are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Zuul.
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What is Zuul and what are its top alternatives?

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.
Zuul is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Zuul

  • Apigee
    Apigee

    API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world. ...

  • Eureka
    Eureka

    Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers. ...

  • Kong
    Kong

    Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform. ...

  • HAProxy
    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. ...

  • Istio
    Istio

    Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc. ...

  • NGINX
    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. ...

  • Jenkins
    Jenkins

    In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project. ...

  • Consul
    Consul

    Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable. ...

Zuul alternatives & related posts

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Apigee

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Intelligent and complete API platform
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PROS OF APIGEE
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    Highly scalable and secure API Management Platform
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    Quick jumpstart
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    Good documentation
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    Fast and adjustable caching
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    Easy to use
CONS OF APIGEE
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    Expensive
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    Doesn't support hybrid natively

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Eureka

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AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
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PROS OF EUREKA
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    Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud
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    Web ui
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    Monitoring
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    Health checking
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    Circuit breaker
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    Netflix battle tested components
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    Service discovery
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    Open Source
CONS OF EUREKA
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    Kong

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    PROS OF KONG
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      Easy to maintain
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      Easy to install
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      Flexible
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      Great performance
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      Api blueprint
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      Custom Plugins
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      Kubernetes-native
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      Security
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      Has a good plugin infrastructure
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      Agnostic
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      Load balancing
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      Documentation is clear
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      Very customizable
    CONS OF KONG
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      Al Tsang
      Problem/Challenge

      We needed a lightweight and completely customizable #microservices #gateway to be able to generate #JWT and introspect #OAuth2 tokens as well. The #gateway was going to front all #APIs for our single page web app as well as externalized #APIs for our partners.

      Contenders

      We looked at Tyk Cloud and Kong. Kong's plugins are all Lua based and its core is NGINX and OpenResty. Although it's open source, it's not the greatest platform to be able to customize. On top of that enterprise features are paid and expensive. Tyk is Go and the nomenclature used within Tyk like "sessions" was bizarre, and again enterprise features were paid.

      Decision

      We ultimately decided to roll our own using ExpressJS into Express Gateway because the use case for using ExpressJS as an #API #gateway was tried and true, in fact - all the enterprise features that the other two charge for #OAuth2 introspection etc were freely available within ExpressJS middleware.

      Outcome

      We opened source Express Gateway with a core set of plugins and the community started writing their own and could quickly do so by rolling lots of ExpressJS middleware into Express Gateway

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      HAProxy logo

      HAProxy

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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
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        Free
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        Well-Documented
      • 12
        Very popular
      • 7
        Runs health checks on backends
      • 7
        Suited for very high traffic web sites
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        Scalable
      • 5
        Ready to Docker
      • 4
        Powers many world's most visited sites
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        Simple
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        Work with NTLM
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        Ssl offloading
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        Available as a plugin for OPNsense
      CONS OF HAPROXY
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        Becomes your single point of failure

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      Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

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      Tom Klein

      We're using Git through GitHub for public repositories and GitLab for our private repositories due to its easy to use features. Docker and Kubernetes are a must have for our highly scalable infrastructure complimented by HAProxy with Varnish in front of it. We are using a lot of npm and Visual Studio Code in our development sessions.

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      Istio logo

      Istio

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      Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, by Google, IBM, and Lyft
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      PROS OF ISTIO
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        Zero code for logging and monitoring
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        Service Mesh
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        Great flexibility
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        Resiliency
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        Powerful authorization mechanisms
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        Ingress controller
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        Easy integration with Kubernetes and Docker
      • 4
        Full Security
      CONS OF ISTIO
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        Performance

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      Shared insights
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      IstioIstioDaprDapr

      At my company, we are trying to move away from a monolith into microservices led architecture. We are now stuck with a problem to establish a communication mechanism between microservices. Since, we are planning to use service meshes and something like Dapr/Istio, we are not sure on how to split services between the two. Service meshes offer Traffic Routing or Splitting whereas, Dapr can offer state management and service-service invocation. At the same time both of them provide mLTS, Metrics, Resiliency and tracing. How to choose who should offer what?

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      Anas MOKDAD
      Shared insights
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      KongKongIstioIstio

      As for the new support of service mesh pattern by Kong, I wonder how does it compare to Istio?

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      NGINX logo

      NGINX

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        High-performance http server
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        Performance
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        Easy to configure
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        Open source
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        Load balancer
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        Free
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        Scalability
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        Web server
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        Simplicity
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        Easy setup
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        Content caching
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        Web Accelerator
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        Capability
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        Fast
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        High-latency
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        Predictability
      • 8
        Reverse Proxy
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        The best of them
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        Supports http/2
      • 5
        Great Community
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        Lots of Modules
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        Enterprise version
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        High perfomance proxy server
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        Reversy Proxy
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        Streaming media delivery
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        Streaming media
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        Embedded Lua scripting
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        GRPC-Web
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        Blash
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        Lightweight
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        Fast and easy to set up
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        Slim
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        saltstack
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        Virtual hosting
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        Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
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        Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior
      • 1
        Ingress controller
      CONS OF NGINX
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        Advanced features require subscription

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      Recently I have been working on an open source stack to help people consolidate their personal health data in a single database so that AI and analytics apps can be run against it to find personalized treatments. We chose to go with a #containerized approach leveraging Docker #containers with a local development environment setup with Docker Compose and nginx for container routing. For the production environment we chose to pull code from GitHub and build/push images using Jenkins and using Kubernetes to deploy to Amazon EC2.

      We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.

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      Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

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      Jenkins logo

      Jenkins

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      PROS OF JENKINS
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        Hosted internally
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        Free open source
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        Great to build, deploy or launch anything async
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        Tons of integrations
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        Rich set of plugins with good documentation
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        Has support for build pipelines
      • 68
        Easy setup
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        It is open-source
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        Workflow plugin
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        Configuration as code
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        Very powerful tool
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        Many Plugins
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        Continuous Integration
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        Great flexibility
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        Git and Maven integration is better
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        100% free and open source
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        Slack Integration (plugin)
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        Github integration
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        Self-hosted GitLab Integration (plugin)
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        Easy customisation
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        Pipeline API
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        Docker support
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        Fast builds
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        Hosted Externally
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        Excellent docker integration
      • 4
        Platform idnependency
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        AWS Integration
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        JOBDSL
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        It's Everywhere
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        Customizable
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        Can be run as a Docker container
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        It`w worked
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        Loose Coupling
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        NodeJS Support
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        Build PR Branch Only
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        Easily extendable with seamless integration
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        PHP Support
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        Ruby/Rails Support
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        Universal controller
      CONS OF JENKINS
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        Workarounds needed for basic requirements
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        Groovy with cumbersome syntax
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        Plugins compatibility issues
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        Lack of support
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        Limited abilities with declarative pipelines
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        No YAML syntax
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        Too tied to plugins versions

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      Tymoteusz Paul
      Devops guy at X20X Development LTD · | 23 upvotes · 8M views

      Often enough I have to explain my way of going about setting up a CI/CD pipeline with multiple deployment platforms. Since I am a bit tired of yapping the same every single time, I've decided to write it up and share with the world this way, and send people to read it instead ;). I will explain it on "live-example" of how the Rome got built, basing that current methodology exists only of readme.md and wishes of good luck (as it usually is ;)).

      It always starts with an app, whatever it may be and reading the readmes available while Vagrant and VirtualBox is installing and updating. Following that is the first hurdle to go over - convert all the instruction/scripts into Ansible playbook(s), and only stopping when doing a clear vagrant up or vagrant reload we will have a fully working environment. As our Vagrant environment is now functional, it's time to break it! This is the moment to look for how things can be done better (too rigid/too lose versioning? Sloppy environment setup?) and replace them with the right way to do stuff, one that won't bite us in the backside. This is the point, and the best opportunity, to upcycle the existing way of doing dev environment to produce a proper, production-grade product.

      I should probably digress here for a moment and explain why. I firmly believe that the way you deploy production is the same way you should deploy develop, shy of few debugging-friendly setting. This way you avoid the discrepancy between how production work vs how development works, which almost always causes major pains in the back of the neck, and with use of proper tools should mean no more work for the developers. That's why we start with Vagrant as developer boxes should be as easy as vagrant up, but the meat of our product lies in Ansible which will do meat of the work and can be applied to almost anything: AWS, bare metal, docker, LXC, in open net, behind vpn - you name it.

      We must also give proper consideration to monitoring and logging hoovering at this point. My generic answer here is to grab Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. While for different use cases there may be better solutions, this one is well battle-tested, performs reasonably and is very easy to scale both vertically (within some limits) and horizontally. Logstash rules are easy to write and are well supported in maintenance through Ansible, which as I've mentioned earlier, are at the very core of things, and creating triggers/reports and alerts based on Elastic and Kibana is generally a breeze, including some quite complex aggregations.

      If we are happy with the state of the Ansible it's time to move on and put all those roles and playbooks to work. Namely, we need something to manage our CI/CD pipelines. For me, the choice is obvious: TeamCity. It's modern, robust and unlike most of the light-weight alternatives, it's transparent. What I mean by that is that it doesn't tell you how to do things, doesn't limit your ways to deploy, or test, or package for that matter. Instead, it provides a developer-friendly and rich playground for your pipelines. You can do most the same with Jenkins, but it has a quite dated look and feel to it, while also missing some key functionality that must be brought in via plugins (like quality REST API which comes built-in with TeamCity). It also comes with all the common-handy plugins like Slack or Apache Maven integration.

      The exact flow between CI and CD varies too greatly from one application to another to describe, so I will outline a few rules that guide me in it: 1. Make build steps as small as possible. This way when something breaks, we know exactly where, without needing to dig and root around. 2. All security credentials besides development environment must be sources from individual Vault instances. Keys to those containers should exist only on the CI/CD box and accessible by a few people (the less the better). This is pretty self-explanatory, as anything besides dev may contain sensitive data and, at times, be public-facing. Because of that appropriate security must be present. TeamCity shines in this department with excellent secrets-management. 3. Every part of the build chain shall consume and produce artifacts. If it creates nothing, it likely shouldn't be its own build. This way if any issue shows up with any environment or version, all developer has to do it is grab appropriate artifacts to reproduce the issue locally. 4. Deployment builds should be directly tied to specific Git branches/tags. This enables much easier tracking of what caused an issue, including automated identifying and tagging the author (nothing like automated regression testing!).

      Speaking of deployments, I generally try to keep it simple but also with a close eye on the wallet. Because of that, I am more than happy with AWS or another cloud provider, but also constantly peeking at the loads and do we get the value of what we are paying for. Often enough the pattern of use is not constantly erratic, but rather has a firm baseline which could be migrated away from the cloud and into bare metal boxes. That is another part where this approach strongly triumphs over the common Docker and CircleCI setup, where you are very much tied in to use cloud providers and getting out is expensive. Here to embrace bare-metal hosting all you need is a help of some container-based self-hosting software, my personal preference is with Proxmox and LXC. Following that all you must write are ansible scripts to manage hardware of Proxmox, similar way as you do for Amazon EC2 (ansible supports both greatly) and you are good to go. One does not exclude another, quite the opposite, as they can live in great synergy and cut your costs dramatically (the heavier your base load, the bigger the savings) while providing production-grade resiliency.

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      Thierry Schellenbach

      Releasing new versions of our services is done by Travis CI. Travis first runs our test suite. Once it passes, it publishes a new release binary to GitHub.

      Common tasks such as installing dependencies for the Go project, or building a binary are automated using plain old Makefiles. (We know, crazy old school, right?) Our binaries are compressed using UPX.

      Travis has come a long way over the past years. I used to prefer Jenkins in some cases since it was easier to debug broken builds. With the addition of the aptly named “debug build” button, Travis is now the clear winner. It’s easy to use and free for open source, with no need to maintain anything.

      #ContinuousIntegration #CodeCollaborationVersionControl

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      Consul

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      PROS OF CONSUL
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        Great service discovery infrastructure
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        Health checking
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        Distributed key-value store
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        Monitoring
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        High-availability
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        Web-UI
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        Token-based acls
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        Gossip clustering
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        Dns server
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        Not Java
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        Docker integration
      CONS OF CONSUL
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        John Kodumal

        As we've evolved or added additional infrastructure to our stack, we've biased towards managed services. Most new backing stores are Amazon RDS instances now. We do use self-managed PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB for time-series data—this is made HA with the use of Patroni and Consul.

        We also use managed Amazon ElastiCache instances instead of spinning up Amazon EC2 instances to run Redis workloads, as well as shifting to Amazon Kinesis instead of Kafka.

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        Since the beginning, Cal Henderson has been the CTO of Slack. Earlier this year, he commented on a Quora question summarizing their current stack.

        Apps
        • Web: a mix of JavaScript/ES6 and React.
        • Desktop: And Electron to ship it as a desktop application.
        • Android: a mix of Java and Kotlin.
        • iOS: written in a mix of Objective C and Swift.
        Backend
        • The core application and the API written in PHP/Hack that runs on HHVM.
        • The data is stored in MySQL using Vitess.
        • Caching is done using Memcached and MCRouter.
        • The search service takes help from SolrCloud, with various Java services.
        • The messaging system uses WebSockets with many services in Java and Go.
        • Load balancing is done using HAproxy with Consul for configuration.
        • Most services talk to each other over gRPC,
        • Some Thrift and JSON-over-HTTP
        • Voice and video calling service was built in Elixir.
        Data warehouse
        • Built using open source tools including Presto, Spark, Airflow, Hadoop and Kafka.
        Etc
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