Simproxy

Simple HTTP load balancer

Simproxy

• checks healthy of backends by HTTP requests
• balances HTTP requests to multiple backends (currently least request balancing is only supported)
• supports server-starter

Installation

Pre-built binaries are available at https://github.com/ryotarai/simproxy/releases

Or you can install by go get:

$ go get github.com/ryotarai/simproxy

Usage

$ simproxy -config config.yml

Configuration

https://github.com/ryotarai/simproxy/blob/master/config.example.yml

Balancing Method

leastreq (least requests)

leastreq method proxies incoming requests to backends that have the least outstanding requests. 'outstanding requests' means requests that the backend received but does not respond to yet.

Development

Test

$ make test

Build

$ make build
$ ls bin/simproxy
bin/simproxy

Cross Build

Make sure that gox is installed.

$ make crossbuild
$ tree bin
bin
└── v0.1.4
    ├── simproxy_darwin_amd64_0.1.4
    └── simproxy_linux_amd64_0.1.4

Release

1. Bump up the version in cli/version.go and commit it
2. Run make release (ghr is required)

Dependencies

Dependencies are managed by dep