loxilb-io/loxilb

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loxilb is an open-source, eBPF-based cloud-native load-balancer written in Go, designed to work across on-prem, public-cloud, and hybrid Kubernetes environments. It provides service type load-balancing (L4 by default, with L7 support) and handles telco/edge protocols like GTP, SCTP, and SRv6.

Use cases

• provide service type loadbalancer for on-prem kubernetes clusters
• replace kube-proxy with an eBPF-based alternative
• load balance SCTP and GTP traffic for 5G telco workloads
• run a self-managed load balancer instead of cloud provider LB
• deploy load balancing at the edge for IoT and mobility
• bring your own load balancer to EKS or other managed k8s
• do NAT64 and NAT translation with eBPF

When to choose

• you run self-managed or on-prem Kubernetes and need a service type loadbalancer
• you need high-performance L4 load balancing with eBPF
• your telco/5G workloads involve SCTP, GTP, or other exotic protocols
• you want a single LB solution across on-prem, public cloud, and hybrid environments

When to avoid

• you only need a simple L7 reverse proxy and are happy with nginx or envoy
• you need a fully managed cloud-provider load balancer
• your environment does not support eBPF (older kernels, non-Linux platforms)

Facets

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networking proxy api-gateway networking cloud-computing self-hosted go ebpf l4-load-balancer l7-load-balancer service-type-loadbalancer nat64 sctp gtp edge-computing telco 5g hybrid-cloud ingress kube-proxy-alternative load-balancing containers kubernetes devops telecommunications linux docker

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