Strowger 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 RPC. Only two pieces of data are required: the domain name and the service name. etcd is used for persistence so that all instances of strowger get the same configuration.
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.
Since this is very much an alpha prototype, a service discovery shim for HAProxy would make more sense for production currently.
Flynn is a modular, open source Platform as a Service (PaaS).
If you're new to Flynn, start here.
Flynn is in active development and currently unsuitable for production use.
Users are encouraged to experiment with Flynn but should assume there are stability, security, and performance weaknesses throughout the project. This warning will be removed when Flynn is ready for production use.
Please report bugs as issues on the appropriate repository. If you have a general question or don't know which repo to use, report them here.
We welcome and encourage community contributions to Flynn.
Since the project is still unstable, there are specific priorities for development. Pull requests that do not address these priorities will not be accepted until Flynn is production ready.
Please familiarize yourself with the Contribution Guidelines and Project Roadmap before contributing.
There are many ways to help Flynn besides contributing code:
- Fix bugs or file issues
- Improve the documentation including this website
- Contribute financially to support core development
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