gobetween
Modern L4 load balancer and reverse proxy
gobetween is a free, lightweight L4 load balancer and reverse proxy supporting TCP and UDP with multiple discovery and health-check backends. It is designed for simple, fast traffic distribution.
Key features
- TCP and UDP balancing
- Service discovery
- Health checks
- REST API
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Single small binary
- Easy to configure
Trade-offs
- L4 only
- Smaller community
gobetween replaces
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