router

README

Router

Router is the Flynn HTTP/TCP cluster router. It relies on service discovery to keep track of what backends are up and acts as a standard reverse proxy with random load balancing. HTTP domains and TCP ports are provisioned via a HTTP API. Only two pieces of data are required: the domain name and the service name. PostgreSQL is used as a pluggable persistence backend so that all instances of router get the same configuration.

Benefits over HAProxy/nginx

The primary benefits are that it uses service discovery natively and supports dynamic configuration. Both HAProxy and nginx require a new process to be spawned to change the majority of their configuration.