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Envoy Proxy is an open-source, high-performance proxy designed for edge services, microservices, and service meshes. It provides dynamic service discovery, load balancing, observability, traffic management, and extensibility through filters and APIs.
💡 Pick it for simpler, highly efficient load balancing with lower operational overhead than Envoy.
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Open-source
💡 Choose it for familiar, efficient web serving and reverse proxying across a broad range of deployments.
Nginx is a high-performance web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache.
Free and commercial options available
Traefik Labs
💡 Pick it when automatic container discovery and easy Kubernetes routing matter more than Envoy's deep extensibility.
Traefik Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy and load balancer built for dynamically changing container and Kubernetes environments. It automatically discovers services...
Free, open source; commercial features available
Kong Inc.
💡 Choose it for full API management, plugins, and governance rather than a general-purpose programmable data plane.
Kong Gateway is an API gateway and reverse proxy for managing, securing, and observing service APIs. It targets platform and API teams...
Free, open source; enterprise pricing on request
💡 Pick it for an open-source API gateway with dynamic routing and plugins without adopting a commercial gateway.
Apache APISIX is an open-source dynamic API gateway built on NGINX and etcd for cloud-native traffic management. It supports plugins, traffic control,...
💡 Choose it for a lightweight Kubernetes service mesh with simpler operations than an Envoy-based mesh.
Linkerd is a service mesh for cloud-native applications, providing observability, reliability, and security.
Open Source
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