Replicating and Load Balancing Go Applications in Docker Containers with Consul and Fabio

1. golangconsuldiscovery

   1 1 8 5.8 Shell

   Replicating and Load Balancing Go Applications in Docker Containers with Consul and Fabio. More details in my article on Better Programming:

   

   Working demo in the repository: https://github.com/mwiater/golangconsuldiscovery

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. consul

   2 65 28,983 9.3 Go

   Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

   

   After some research and testing, I landed on using Consul and Fabio as the demo infrastructure. Of course, there is a myriad of other options to accomplish this task, but because of the low configuration and ease of use, I was impressed with this pairing. Both projects are mature and well-supported, and very flexible--just because you can run them with low configuration, doesn't mean you have to. I wanted to keep this demo constrained, but the exercise did get me excited about exploring things further: circuit breakers, traffic splitting, and more complex service meshes.

4. fabio

   3 7 7,303 7.9 Go

   Consul Load-Balancing made simple

   

   After some research and testing, I landed on using Consul and Fabio as the demo infrastructure. Of course, there is a myriad of other options to accomplish this task, but because of the low configuration and ease of use, I was impressed with this pairing. Both projects are mature and well-supported, and very flexible--just because you can run them with low configuration, doesn't mean you have to. I wanted to keep this demo constrained, but the exercise did get me excited about exploring things further: circuit breakers, traffic splitting, and more complex service meshes.

5. traefik

   4 198 54,816 9.6 Go

   The Cloud Native Application Proxy

   

   Glad it was helpful! I had never heard of it before either, but it looks like it's been around since 2015. I've leaned on Traefik a lot in the past, but Fabio seemed to be a lot simpler. Simplicity was the rule of thumb for this exercise, So I didn't dig too hard for performance comparisons...

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