BFE

BFE is an open-source layer 7 load balancer derived from proprietary Baidu FrontEnd.

Advantages

• Multiple protocols supported, including HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc.
• Content based routing, support user-defined routing rule in advanced domain-specific language.
• Support multiple load balancing policies.
• Flexible plugin framework to extend functionality. Based on the framework, developer can add new features rapidly.
• Detailed built-in metrics available for service status monitor.

Getting Started

• Build and run

Running the tests

• See Build and run

Documentation

• English version
• Chinese version

Contributing

• Please create an issue in issue list.
• Contact Committers/Owners for further discussion if needed.
• Following the golang coding standards.
• See the CONTRIBUTING file for details

Authors

• Owners: MAINTAINERS
• Contributors: CONTRIBUTORS

Communication

• BFE community on Slack: Sign up and join channels on topics that interest you.
• BFE developer group on WeChat: Send a request mail with your WeChat ID and a contribution you've made to BFE(such as a PR/Issue). We will invite you right away.

License

BFE is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.