alibaba/tengine
A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 60
- Longevity 100
Flags: prerelease_only
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 4.0
- age_days: 5278
- days_rel: 22
- days_push: 9
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
13338 stars · 2504 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Tengine is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy forked from nginx, developed by Taobao/Alibaba since 2011. It is 100% nginx-compatible and adds HTTP/3 (QUIC), active upstream health checks, zero-downtime dynamic configuration, Kubernetes Ingress support, Lua scripting, and Chinese national-standard TLS (SM2/TLCP).
Use cases
- serve high-traffic websites with an nginx-compatible web server
- reverse proxy and load balance backend services
- run a kubernetes ingress controller with dynamic config
- terminate HTTP/3 QUIC traffic at the edge
- perform active health checks on upstream servers
- support SM2/TLCP national cryptography TLS
- use Lua to extend web server behavior
- forward proxy with HTTP CONNECT
When to choose
- you need nginx compatibility plus health checks, dynamic config, or HTTP/3
- you operate very large-scale traffic like e-commerce gateways
- you need a Kubernetes ingress controller with zero-downtime dynamic routing
- you must support Chinese national cryptographic TLS standards (SM2/TLCP)
When to avoid
- you want a minimal vanilla nginx with official vendor support
- you need a lightweight dev server or static file host only
- your team cannot maintain a fork-specific feature set
Facets
application · maturity active
http-server proxy load-testing api-gateway middleware websocket web-development backend networking self-hosted microservices security cross-platform self-hosted nginx-fork http3 quic reverse-proxy load-balancer health-check lua-scripting kubernetes-ingress sm2 tlcp tcp-proxy high-performance linux docker kubernetes web-server
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine · fetched 2026-08-28 · 62a796f359e5
- homepage: https://tengine.taobao.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 49f146b75035
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/documentation.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · dbcfbe2a1dc3
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/nginx_docs/cn · fetched 2026-08-29 · 99987b9326ba
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · bda8f6a2f307
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog_ingress_cn.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 32cce16f7f32
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog_cn.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 25018db2a5ba
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog_ingress.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3fa2ca24e1e7
- site_page: https://tengine.taobao.org/changelog.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 42bdda08337d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| alibaba/tengine | main | 86 |
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