/vulcand

Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd

Primary LanguageGoApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Vulcand

Vulcand is a programmatic extendable proxy for microservices and API management. It is inspired by Hystrix and powers Mailgun microservices infrastructure.

Focus and priorities

Vulcand is focused on microservices and API use-cases.

Features

  • Uses Etcd as a configuration backend.
  • API and command line tool.
  • Pluggable middlewares.
  • Support for canary deploys, realtime metrics and resiliency.

Vulcan diagram

Project info

documentation http://vulcand.github.io/
status Used in production@Mailgun on moderate workloads. Under active development.
discussions https://groups.google.com/d/forum/vulcan-proxy
roadmap roadmap.md
build status Build Status