vicanso/pingap

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1353 stars · 99 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Pingap is a high-performance reverse proxy and application gateway built in Rust on Cloudflare's Pingora library, offering nginx-like functionality. It features zero-downtime hot-reloading of TOML configuration, a web admin UI, and 20+ plugins for auth, traffic control, caching, and observability.

Use cases

• reverse proxy like nginx
• api gateway with jwt auth and rate limiting
• automated https with lets encrypt certificates
• load balancing across upstream services
• hot reload proxy config without downtime
• prometheus metrics and opentelemetry tracing for traffic
• service discovery for docker containers
• cache and cors handling at the gateway

When to choose

• you want a modern, memory-safe nginx alternative with a web admin UI
• you need zero-downtime config changes and hot reloading
• you want built-in plugins for auth, rate limiting, caching, and security
• you need automated Let's Encrypt HTTPS including wildcard certs
• you prefer Rust performance and Cloudflare Pingora's reliability

When to avoid

• you need the full nginx ecosystem of third-party modules
• you require layer 4 TCP/UDP proxying beyond pingora's scope
• you want a GUI-first product with no config-file workflow
• you need a proxy that is not yet declared stable by its maintainers

Facets

application · maturity active

proxy api-gateway middleware routing caching rate-limiting auth monitoring tracing http-server service-discovery configuration-management backend web-development infrastructure-as-code self-hosted networking apis self-hosted rust reverse-proxy pingora nginx-alternative gateway hot-reload lets-encrypt acme prometheus opentelemetry toml-config web-admin-ui grpc-web http2 devops linux macos docker web-server

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