Another Rust Load Balancer

ARLB (Another Rust Load Balancer) is a reverse proxy and load balancer written in Rust based on hyper and tokio.

⚠️ This project is not considered production-ready and should not be used in such a context. It is merely a proof of concept and university project. For production-grade load balancers/reverse proxies, please refer to NGINX, HAProxy or Traefik.

Features

• HTTP & HTTPS Termination
• HTTP1.1 & HTTP2
• IPv4 & IPv6 Listeners
• Load Balancing Strategies
  • IP Hash
  • Least Connection
  • Random
  • Round Robin
  • Sticky Cookie
• Middlewares
  • Compression (gzip, deflate, brotli)
  • HTTP Basic Auth (LDAP)
  • HTTP to HTTPS Redirect
  • Custom Error Pages
  • Max Request Body Size
  • Rate Limiting
• Health Checks
• ACME
• Advanced Backend Matching Strategies
• File based configuration
• Reload configuration without restarting the process
• Fast
• Secure

Getting Started

Please have a look at the Getting Started guide.

Documentation

• Architecture
• Configuration
• Load Balancing Strategies
• Middlewares
• Backend Pool Matching
• Health Checks
• Certificates/ACME

Authors/Contributors

This project was created for the High level languages: Rust course (winter term 20/21) of LMU Munich.

• Adrodoc
• Jonas Dellinger
• lor-enz
• Martinif
• skess42
• Zynaa