Vulcand
A programmatic, extendable proxy for microservices and API management, backed by etcd.
What is Vulcand?
Vulcand is a programmatic and extendable proxy designed for microservices and API management, acting as a dynamic load balancer. It solves the problem of routing and managing traffic in distributed systems by leveraging etcd for configuration and supporting features like canary deployments and resilience patterns. It is production-tested at Mailgun for moderate workloads.
Developers and platform engineers building or managing microservices architectures who need a programmable, extensible load balancer and API gateway.
Developers choose Vulcand for its deep integration with etcd for dynamic configuration, its pluggable middleware system for extensibility, and its focus on microservices-specific features like canary deployments and realtime metrics, backed by production usage.
Overview
Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd
Use Cases
Best For
- Dynamic load balancing in microservices architectures
- API gateway management with programmatic control
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