yyyar/gobetween

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1986 stars · 218 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

gobetween is a modern, minimalistic L4 load balancer and reverse proxy written in Go, distributed as a single binary. It supports TCP, TLS (with termination and ACME/Let's Encrypt), and UDP proxying, with dynamic backend discovery via Docker, Consul, DNS SRV, HTTP JSON, exec scripts, and more.

Use cases

• load balance TCP traffic across backends
• terminate TLS with automatic Let's Encrypt certificates
• proxy UDP traffic with virtual sessions
• discover backends dynamically from Docker Swarm or Consul
• manage load balancer servers via a REST API
• health-check backends with TCP pings or custom scripts

When to choose

• you need a lightweight single-binary L4 load balancer
• your backends change dynamically in Docker, Swarm, or Consul environments
• you want TLS termination with ACME support without a heavy proxy
• you need REST API-driven load balancer management

When to avoid

• you need L7/HTTP application-layer routing or advanced features like retries or circuit breaking
• you want a large community and active development (project is in maintenance mode)
• you need built-in service mesh or observability features

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

proxy load-testing http-server networking networking cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code windows go cross-platform l4-load-balancer reverse-proxy tcp-proxy udp-proxy tls-termination backend-discovery consul docker-swarm rest-api single-binary devops linux macos docker

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