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Alternatives to KrakenD

Kong, NGINX, Traefik, Gravitee.io, and Envoy are the most popular alternatives and competitors to KrakenD.
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What is KrakenD and what are its top alternatives?

Its core functionality is to create an API that acts as an aggregator of many microservices into single endpoints, doing the heavy-lifting automatically for you: aggregate, transform, filter, decode, throttle, auth and more.
KrakenD is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to KrakenD

  • Kong
    Kong

    Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform. ...

  • NGINX
    NGINX

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...

  • Traefik
    Traefik

    A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically. ...

  • Gravitee.io
    Gravitee.io

    It is a flexible, lightweight and blazing-fast open source API Platform that helps your organization control finely who, when and how users access your APIs. ...

  • Envoy
    Envoy

    Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. ...

  • HAProxy
    HAProxy

    HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. ...

  • Istio
    Istio

    Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc. ...

  • Ocelot
    Ocelot

    It is aimed at people using .NET running a micro services / service oriented architecture that need a unified point of entry into their system. However it will work with anything that speaks HTTP and run on any platform that ASP.NET Core supports. It manipulates the HttpRequest object into a state specified by its configuration until it reaches a request builder middleware where it creates a HttpRequestMessage object which is used to make a request to a downstream service. ...

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Kong logo

Kong

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PROS OF KONG
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    Easy to maintain
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    Easy to install
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    Flexible
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    Great performance
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    Api blueprint
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    Custom Plugins
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    Kubernetes-native
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    Security
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    Has a good plugin infrastructure
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    Agnostic
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    Load balancing
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    Documentation is clear
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    Very customizable
CONS OF KONG
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    Al Tsang
    Problem/Challenge

    We needed a lightweight and completely customizable #microservices #gateway to be able to generate #JWT and introspect #OAuth2 tokens as well. The #gateway was going to front all #APIs for our single page web app as well as externalized #APIs for our partners.

    Contenders

    We looked at Tyk Cloud and Kong. Kong's plugins are all Lua based and its core is NGINX and OpenResty. Although it's open source, it's not the greatest platform to be able to customize. On top of that enterprise features are paid and expensive. Tyk is Go and the nomenclature used within Tyk like "sessions" was bizarre, and again enterprise features were paid.

    Decision

    We ultimately decided to roll our own using ExpressJS into Express Gateway because the use case for using ExpressJS as an #API #gateway was tried and true, in fact - all the enterprise features that the other two charge for #OAuth2 introspection etc were freely available within ExpressJS middleware.

    Outcome

    We opened source Express Gateway with a core set of plugins and the community started writing their own and could quickly do so by rolling lots of ExpressJS middleware into Express Gateway

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    NGINX logo

    NGINX

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      High-performance http server
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      Performance
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      Easy to configure
    • 607
      Open source
    • 530
      Load balancer
    • 288
      Free
    • 288
      Scalability
    • 225
      Web server
    • 175
      Simplicity
    • 136
      Easy setup
    • 30
      Content caching
    • 21
      Web Accelerator
    • 15
      Capability
    • 14
      Fast
    • 12
      High-latency
    • 12
      Predictability
    • 8
      Reverse Proxy
    • 7
      The best of them
    • 7
      Supports http/2
    • 5
      Great Community
    • 5
      Lots of Modules
    • 5
      Enterprise version
    • 4
      High perfomance proxy server
    • 3
      Reversy Proxy
    • 3
      Streaming media delivery
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      Streaming media
    • 3
      Embedded Lua scripting
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      GRPC-Web
    • 2
      Blash
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      Lightweight
    • 2
      Fast and easy to set up
    • 2
      Slim
    • 2
      saltstack
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      Virtual hosting
    • 1
      Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
    • 1
      Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior
    • 1
      Ingress controller
    CONS OF NGINX
    • 10
      Advanced features require subscription

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    Recently I have been working on an open source stack to help people consolidate their personal health data in a single database so that AI and analytics apps can be run against it to find personalized treatments. We chose to go with a #containerized approach leveraging Docker #containers with a local development environment setup with Docker Compose and nginx for container routing. For the production environment we chose to pull code from GitHub and build/push images using Jenkins and using Kubernetes to deploy to Amazon EC2.

    We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.

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    Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

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    Traefik logo

    Traefik

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    The Cloud Native Edge Router
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    PROS OF TRAEFIK
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      Kubernetes integration
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      Watch service discovery updates
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      Letsencrypt support
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      Swarm integration
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      Several backends
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      Ready-to-use dashboard
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      Easy setup
    • 4
      Rancher integration
    • 1
      Mesos integration
    • 1
      Mantl integration
    CONS OF TRAEFIK
    • 7
      Not very performant (fast)
    • 7
      Complicated setup

    related Traefik posts

    Gabriel Pa
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    TraefikTraefikNGINXNGINX
    at

    We switched to Traefik so we can use the REST API to dynamically configure subdomains and have the ability to redirect between multiple servers.

    We still use nginx with a docker-compose to expose the traffic from our APIs and TCP microservices, but for managing routing to the internet Traefik does a much better job

    The biggest win for naologic was the ability to set dynamic configurations without having to restart the server

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    Shared insights
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    EnvoyEnvoyHAProxyHAProxyTraefikTraefikNGINXNGINX

    We are looking to configure a load balancer with some admin UI. We are currently struggling to decide between NGINX, Traefik, HAProxy, and Envoy. We will use a load balancer in a containerized environment and the load balancer should flexible and easy to reload without changes in case containers are scaled up.

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    Gravitee.io logo

    Gravitee.io

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    PROS OF GRAVITEE.IO
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      Rich policy library
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      Easy deployment on OpenShoft
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      Paid service is available(beneficial in the time of p)
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      No Managed Service
    CONS OF GRAVITEE.IO
    • 1
      Not Cloud Ready

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    Envoy

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    PROS OF ENVOY
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      GRPC-Web
    CONS OF ENVOY
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      Joseph Irving
      DevOps Engineer at uSwitch · | 7 upvotes · 534K views
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      KubernetesKubernetesEnvoyEnvoyGolangGolang
      at

      At uSwitch we wanted a way to load balance between our multiple Kubernetes clusters in AWS to give us added redundancy. We already had ingresses defined for all our applications so we wanted to build on top of that, instead of creating a new system that would require our various teams to change code/config etc.

      Envoy seemed to tick a lot of boxes:

      • Loadbalancing capabilities right out of the box: health checks, circuit breaking, retries etc.
      • Tracing and prometheus metrics support
      • Lightweight
      • Good community support

      This was all good but what really sold us was the api that supported dynamic configuration. This would allow us to dynamically configure envoy to route to ingresses and clusters as they were created or destroyed.

      To do this we built a tool called Yggdrasil using their Go sdk. Yggdrasil effectively just creates envoy configuration from Kubernetes ingress objects, so you point Yggdrasil at your kube clusters, it generates config from the ingresses and then envoy can loadbalance between your clusters for you. This is all done dynamically so as soon as new ingress is created the envoy nodes get updated with the new config. Importantly this all worked with what we already had, no need to create new config for every application, we just put this on top of it.

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      Shared insights
      on
      EnvoyEnvoyHAProxyHAProxyTraefikTraefikNGINXNGINX

      We are looking to configure a load balancer with some admin UI. We are currently struggling to decide between NGINX, Traefik, HAProxy, and Envoy. We will use a load balancer in a containerized environment and the load balancer should flexible and easy to reload without changes in case containers are scaled up.

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      HAProxy logo

      HAProxy

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      The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
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      PROS OF HAPROXY
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        Load balancer
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        High performance
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        Very fast
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        Proxying for tcp and http
      • 55
        SSL termination
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        Open source
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        Reliable
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        Free
      • 18
        Well-Documented
      • 12
        Very popular
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        Runs health checks on backends
      • 7
        Suited for very high traffic web sites
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        Scalable
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        Ready to Docker
      • 4
        Powers many world's most visited sites
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        Simple
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        Work with NTLM
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        Ssl offloading
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        Available as a plugin for OPNsense
      CONS OF HAPROXY
      • 6
        Becomes your single point of failure

      related HAProxy posts

      Around the time of their Series A, Pinterest’s stack included Python and Django, with Tornado and Node.js as web servers. Memcached / Membase and Redis handled caching, with RabbitMQ handling queueing. Nginx, HAproxy and Varnish managed static-delivery and load-balancing, with persistent data storage handled by MySQL.

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      Tom Klein

      We're using Git through GitHub for public repositories and GitLab for our private repositories due to its easy to use features. Docker and Kubernetes are a must have for our highly scalable infrastructure complimented by HAProxy with Varnish in front of it. We are using a lot of npm and Visual Studio Code in our development sessions.

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      Istio logo

      Istio

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      Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, by Google, IBM, and Lyft
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      PROS OF ISTIO
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        Zero code for logging and monitoring
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        Service Mesh
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        Great flexibility
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        Resiliency
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        Powerful authorization mechanisms
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        Ingress controller
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        Easy integration with Kubernetes and Docker
      • 4
        Full Security
      CONS OF ISTIO
      • 16
        Performance

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      IstioIstioDaprDapr

      At my company, we are trying to move away from a monolith into microservices led architecture. We are now stuck with a problem to establish a communication mechanism between microservices. Since, we are planning to use service meshes and something like Dapr/Istio, we are not sure on how to split services between the two. Service meshes offer Traffic Routing or Splitting whereas, Dapr can offer state management and service-service invocation. At the same time both of them provide mLTS, Metrics, Resiliency and tracing. How to choose who should offer what?

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      Anas MOKDAD
      Shared insights
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      KongKongIstioIstio

      As for the new support of service mesh pattern by Kong, I wonder how does it compare to Istio?

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      Ocelot logo

      Ocelot

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      A modern fast, scalable API gateway built on ASP.NET core
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      PROS OF OCELOT
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        Straightforward documentation
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        Simple configuration
      CONS OF OCELOT
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