vulcand/vulcand
Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
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: n/a
- age_days: 4542
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 767
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3095 stars · 219 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Vulcand is a programmatic, extensible HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for microservices and API management, backed by etcd for dynamic configuration. It supports pluggable middlewares, canary deployments, real-time metrics, and OpenTracing via Jaeger.
Use cases
- route traffic to microservices with etcd-driven dynamic configuration
- run canary deployments with gradual traffic shifting
- manage APIs with rate limiting and pluggable middlewares
- collect distributed traces for proxied requests with Jaeger
- run a proxy as a Kubernetes DaemonSet with host aliasing
When to choose
- you already run etcd and want a proxy configured through it
- you need programmatic, API-driven traffic management for microservices
- you want canary releases and real-time metrics in a Go-based proxy
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose proxy without an etcd dependency
- you want a modern, actively developed gateway - consider alternatives as development has slowed
- you need non-HTTP protocols like TCP or gRPC load balancing
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
proxy load-testing middleware api-gateway tracing monitoring microservices apis backend go self-hosted etcd reverse-proxy canary-deployments api-management hystrix-inspired devops linux docker kubernetes
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/vulcand/vulcand · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1edd490bf4ac
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| vulcand/vulcand | main | 23 |
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