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Consul Load-Balancing made simple
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What it is
Consul Load-Balancing made simple
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What people are saying
We used NGINX with Consul (template) and Vault quite extensively until I recently found out about eBay's Fabio ( https://github.com/eBay/fabio ). Fabio is really great as an…
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Mentions over time
Observed mentions: 2015-10-21 09:31:21 UTC to 2023-02-10 12:32:05 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
13 sourcesFabio:zero-conf load balancing router for deploying consul managed microservices
1 points · Open discussionFabio: A zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices
2 points · Open discussionFabio: zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for consul microservices
3 points · Open discussionFabio: Zero-conf load balancer for deploying microservices managed by Consul
2 points · Open discussion