We tried Traefik, but ultimately went with Fabio, which also integrates with Consul nicely; plus it does tcp based stuff for unencrypted gRPC services we shuffle around (which at the time, traefik didn't have.)
It's okay for our use case. Honestly, we were just wanting to get a load balancer up and working with consul, and we had grpc services and internal http apps to balance.
I'm not going to lie; it works and does failover correctly, quickly, and plays nice with consul. Not to mention, the name brings back memories...
If I had my way though, we would use HAProxy, but that's just because there is more options, ways to properly route, and more battle-tested.
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We tried Traefik, but ultimately went with Fabio, which also integrates with Consul nicely; plus it does tcp based stuff for unencrypted gRPC services we shuffle around (which at the time, traefik didn't have.)
How production-ready is Fabio? It looks interesting but I can't tell how mature of a product it is
It's okay for our use case. Honestly, we were just wanting to get a load balancer up and working with consul, and we had grpc services and internal http apps to balance.
I'm not going to lie; it works and does failover correctly, quickly, and plays nice with consul. Not to mention, the name brings back memories...
If I had my way though, we would use HAProxy, but that's just because there is more options, ways to properly route, and more battle-tested.