Submitted 3 weeks ago by SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello, I am looking for a alternative to HA Proxy, as the GUI options for it, are both third-party and not very good looking, also I just want to know about the alternatives, what I am looking in a high availability setup is the ability to detect if a server is offline, and route to other servers, as well as other HA goodies.
Pretty much all of them.
I didn’t know haproxy had a GUI, but the config files are very simple. I would just modify an example one and call it good.
What do you want the UI for? For configuration it’s usually meh because it’s the kind of thing you configure by config file, often generated config files even. For stats it’s where it gets interesting, usually third-party options like Grafana is used along with something like Prometheus to collect the metrics.
When it comes to easy configuration, newer options go for the zero configuration angle rather than a nice UI to configure it. Just need some Docker tags and Traefik automagically configures itself, so the UI is just for viewing information.
Maybe nginx proxy manager can do this.
Opnsense kinda has a webUI for HAProxy, but it’s also not very good.
I recommend learning the config files, since HAProxy is probably the best option for a HA load balancer.
If you’re ok with closed source and 20mbps, kemp makes a free version:
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If your requirement is a GUI, you’re not going to find anything. HA Proxy is also the most performance out of anything out there last I looked, and it’s got one of the simplest configuration setups.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I use HAProxy and Caddy, and for different reasons:
It works really well. My router is configured as a DNS server to route my domains to my local network, so I get to use TLS even on my LAN, which is neat.
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Personally, I find Traefik much simpler than Nginx, especially with Kubernetes, but even with pure docker, but it’s definitely not as performant. That’s balanced by the fact that it does a lot of automatic detection and has dynamic config loading so I don’t have to break other services when changing configurations.
magikmw@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I can confirm caddy is more of a high availability proxy than a proper load balancer, but it does it’s job and has an api you can hook up to a gui if you want. Or like I do - to a config repo with ci/cd deployment.
vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
apache can do load balancing as well httpd.apache.org/docs/…/mod_proxy_balancer.html
I’d pick something that you already use across your stack, to minimize the number of different integration/config styles/bugs…