labstack/armor

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1660 stars · 64 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Armor is a modern HTTP server and reverse proxy written in Go, supporting HTTP/2, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, WebSocket proxying, and virtual hosts with path-level routing. Its functionality is built on a plugin interface, making custom extensions straightforward.

Use cases

• serve a website with automatic https certificates
• reverse proxy http and websocket requests
• host multiple sites on one server with virtual hosts
• redirect http to https and handle www redirects
• serve static files with gzip compression
• add security headers like hsts and csp to responses

When to choose

• you want a simple Go-based web server with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS
• you need lightweight reverse proxying with virtual host routing
• you want an extensible plugin-based HTTP server

When to avoid

• you need an actively maintained project - the last release was in 2020
• you need battle-tested production proxying - Caddy or nginx are safer choices
• you need advanced load balancing or service mesh features

Facets

service · maturity abandoned

http-server proxy routing middleware web-development backend networking self-hosted windows go cross-platform http2 letsencrypt reverse-proxy tls websocket gzip cors virtual-hosts load-balancing linux macos

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