BFE is an open-source layer 7 load balancer derived from proprietary Baidu FrontEnd.

Advantages

• Multiple protocols supported, including HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc.
• Content based routing, support user-defined routing rule in advanced domain-specific language.
• Support multiple load balancing policies.
• Flexible plugin framework to extend functionality. Based on the framework, developer can add new features rapidly.
• Detailed built-in metrics available for service status monitor.

Getting Started

• Build and run

Running the tests

• See Build and run

Documentation

• Overview
• Build and run
• Concepts
• Functionality
• Monitor
• Plugin

Contributing

• Please create an issue in [issue list] (http://github.com/baidu/bfe/issues).
• Contact Committers/Owners for further discussion if needed.
• Following the golang coding standards.
• See the CONTRIBUTING file for details

Authors

• Owners: zhangmiao02, yangsijie
• Committers: yangsijie

Discussion

• Issue: https://github.com/baidu/bfe/issues

License

BFE is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.