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### **Reverse proxy built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora** ### **Reverse proxy built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora**
Aralez is a high-performance Rust reverse proxy with zero-configuration automatic protocol handling, TLS, and upstream management, Aralez is a high-performance Rust reverse proxy with zero-configuration automatic protocol handling, TLS, and upstream management, featuring Consul and Kubernetes integration for dynamic pod discovery and health-checked routing, acting as a
featuring Consul and Kubernetes integration for dynamic pod discovery and health-checked routing, acting as a lightweight ingress-style proxy. lightweight ingress-style proxy.
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What Aralez means ? What Aralez means ? **Aralez = Արալեզ** <ins>Named after the legendary Armenian guardian spirit, winged dog-like creature, that descend upon fallen heroes to lick their wounds and resurrect them</ins>.
**Aralez = Արալեզ** <ins>Named after the legendary Armenian guardian spirit, winged dog-like creature, that descend upon fallen heroes to lick their wounds and resurrect them</ins>.
Built on Rust, on top of **Cloudflare’s Pingora engine**, **Aralez** delivers world-class performance, security and scalability — right out of the box. Built on Rust, on top of **Cloudflare’s Pingora engine**, **Aralez** delivers world-class performance, security and scalability — right out of the box.
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- **Let’s Encrypt Certificates** — Ordering and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates via the HTTP-01 challenge. - **Let’s Encrypt Certificates** — Ordering and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates via the HTTP-01 challenge.
- **Upstreams TLS detection** — Aralez will automatically detect if upstreams uses secure connection. - **Upstreams TLS detection** — Aralez will automatically detect if upstreams uses secure connection.
- **Built in rate limiter** — Globar or route limit requests to upstreams. - **Built in rate limiter** — Globar or route limit requests to upstreams.
- **Caching Proxy** — In memory cache with configurable TTL, without external dependencies.
- **Authentication** — Supports Basic Auth, API tokens, and JWT verification. - **Authentication** — Supports Basic Auth, API tokens, and JWT verification.
- **Basic Auth** - **Basic Auth**
- **API Key** via `x-api-key` header - **API Key** via `x-api-key` header
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## Installation ## Installation
Download the prebuilt binary for your architecture from releases section of [GitHub](https://github.com/sadoyan/aralez/releases) repo Download the prebuilt binary for your architecture from releases section of [GitHub](https://github.com/sadoyan/aralez/releases) repo Make the binary executable `chmod 755 ./aralez-VERSION` and run.
Make the binary executable `chmod 755 ./aralez-VERSION` and run.
File names: File names:
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**glibc** builds are in general faster, but have few, basic, Glibc dependencies: **glibc** builds are in general faster, but have few, basic, Glibc dependencies:
**musl** builds are 100% portable, static compiled binaries and have zero system dependencies. **musl** builds are 100% portable, static compiled binaries and have zero system dependencies. In general musl builds have a little less performance.
In general musl builds have a little less performance.
The most intensive tests shows 107k-110k requests per second on **Glibc** binaries against 97k-100k **Musl** ones. The most intensive tests shows 107k-110k requests per second on **Glibc** binaries against 97k-100k **Musl** ones.
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## Remote Config API ## Remote Config API
Push new `upstreams.yaml` over HTTP to `config_address` (`:3000` by default). Useful for CI/CD automation or remote config updates. Push new `upstreams.yaml` over HTTP to `config_address` (`:3000` by default). Useful for CI/CD automation or remote config updates. URL parameter. `key=MASTERKEY` is required. `MASTERKEY` is the value of `master_key` in the `main.yaml`
URL parameter. `key=MASTERKEY` is required. `MASTERKEY` is the value of `master_key` in the `main.yaml`
```bash ```bash
curl -XPOST --data-binary @./etc/upstreams.txt 127.0.0.1:3000/conf?key=${MASTERKEY} curl -XPOST --data-binary @./etc/upstreams.txt 127.0.0.1:3000/conf?key=${MASTERKEY}
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| Feature / Proxy | **Aralez** | **Nginx** | **HAProxy** | **Traefik** | **Caddy** | **Envoy** | | Feature / Proxy | **Aralez** | **Nginx** | **HAProxy** | **Traefik** | **Caddy** | **Envoy** |
|--------------------|:----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:----------:|:---------:| |--------------------|:----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:-----------:|:----------:|:---------:|
| **Reload** | ✅ Hot | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Hot | ✅ Hot | ✅ Hot | | **Reload** | ✅ Hot | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Hot | ✅ Hot | ✅ Hot |
| **Cert load** | ✅ Hot | ❌ Reload | ❌ Reload | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ No ? | | **Cert load** | ✅ Hot | ❌ Reload | ❌ Reload | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ No ? |
| **Authentication** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **Authentication** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **HTTP2** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **HTTP2** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **TLS Grades** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | | **TLS Grades** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual |
| **gRPC** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | | **gRPC** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual |
| **SSL Proxy** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **SSL Proxy** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **HTTP/2** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **HTTP/2** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **WebSocket** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **WebSocket** | ✅ Auto | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **Sticky Session** | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ⚙️ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Manual | | **Sticky Session** | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ⚙️ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Manual |
| **Prometheus** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ External | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **Prometheus** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ External | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **Consul** | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ⚙️DNS API | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes | | **Consul** | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ⚙️DNS API | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| **Kubernetes** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Ingress | ⚙️ External | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Yes | | **Kubernetes** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Ingress | ⚙️ External | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Limited | ✅ Yes |
| **Limiter** | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **Limiter** | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **Static Files** | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Lua ? | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | | **Static Files** | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Lua ? | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| **Health Checks** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | | **Health Checks** | ✅ Yes | ⚙️ Manual | ⚙️ Manual | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| **Built With** | Rust | C | C | Go | Go | C++ | | **Built With** | Rust | C | C | Go | Go | C++ |
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## Results reflect synthetic performance under optimal conditions. ## Results reflect synthetic performance under optimal conditions.
- CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz - CPU : Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz
- 300 : simultaneous connections - 300 : simultaneous connections
- Duration : 10 Minutes - Duration : 10 Minutes
- Binary : aralez-x86_64-glibc - Binary : aralez-x86_64-glibc
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![Aralez](https://netangels.net/utils/glibc10.png) ![Aralez](https://netangels.net/utils/glibc10.png)
- CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz - CPU : Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz
- 300 : simultaneous connections - 300 : simultaneous connections
- Duration : 10 Minutes - Duration : 10 Minutes
- Binary : aralez-x86_64-musl - Binary : aralez-x86_64-musl
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## Aralez, Nginx, Traefik performance benchmark ## Aralez, Nginx, Traefik performance benchmark
This benchmark is done on 4 servers. With CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2174G CPU @ 3.80GHz, 64 GB RAM. This benchmark is done on 4 servers. With CPU Intel (R) Xeon (R) E-2174G CPU @ 3.80GHz, 64 GB RAM.
1. Sever runs Aralez, Traefik, Nginx on different ports. Tuned as much as I could . 1. Sever runs Aralez, Traefik, Nginx on different ports. Tuned as much as I could .
2. 3x Upstreams servers, running Nginx. Replying with dummy json hardcoded in config file for max performance. 2. 3x Upstreams servers, running Nginx. Replying with dummy json hardcoded in config file for max performance.