river

I’d been watching River (Pingora-based) and hoping it would mature, because I think Rust + Pingora (from Cloudflare) is a really solid foundation for a future-proof reverse proxy. Progress stayed quiet, so I started building the “practical reverse proxy layer” on top of Pingora myself: config/routing + operational defaults + a way to plug in extra request/response logic without patching the core. Sentinel: https://github.com/raskell-io/sentinel River: https://github.com/memorysafety/river Quick try: curl -fsSL https://getsentinel.raskell.io | sh If you’ve operated proxies: what’s one default you’d change to make them less surprising (timeouts, retries, header handling, etc.)?

I was previously waiting for River https://github.com/memorysafety/river/ to take off, it's built on top of previously open-sourced library by Cloudflare for revese-proxying, but just like many other "grant-based" projects it just died when funding stopped. I really like the spirit and simplicity of Ferron, will try it out when I have a chance. Been waiting for gradually throw out nginx for a while now, nothing clicked all the checkboxes.

What about Cloudflare's pengora? Edit: or https://github.com/memorysafety/river Edit 2: or https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu

Have you heard of axum[1] or actix-web[2]? What does this do that existing Rust web servers don't? I think the "web server" ecosystem in Rust is pretty mature by now, so you should probably state in what way your project is novel on the website. Edit: OK, I realized that this is supposed to be an nginx/caddy replacement, so a complete, configurable web server/proxy. Maybe check out https://github.com/memorysafety/river or https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu [1] https://docs.rs/axum [2] https://docs.rs/actix-web

Caddy is pretty nice, I believe Coolify uses it as part of their self-hosted open source PaaS model. Just out of curiosity, are there any alternatives in Rust? I think Pingora is one, as well as River which is built on top of it [0], but I'm not sure how widely used the latter is as a Caddy replacement. [0] https://github.com/memorysafety/river

I see there's very little activity (at least in the main branch) of the River proxy repository [1], so I wonder if the project is doing well? There was a lot of excitement about it when Cloudflare open-sourced their "pingora" Rust library, but it doesn't seem like there's a good ecosystem developing around that. Anyone using River in production or planning to? Anyone tried it and hit some roadblocks? 1: https://github.com/memorysafety/river