Caddy Load Balancer

Caddy Load Balancer solution provides a powerful, secure, and flexible tool for managing web traffic across multiple backend servers. Designed to distribute incoming requests efficiently, the Caddy Load Balancer improves site reliability and response times, allowing websites to handle higher traffic loads with ease. With Caddy’s automatic HTTPS support and load-balancing capabilities, this solution is ideal for organizations that need an easy-to-configure and highly effective reverse proxy.

Caddy Load Balancer Features

• Automatic HTTPS Seamlessly handles SSL certificate acquisition and renewal, ensuring secure traffic management by default.
• Easy-to-Configure Caddyfile Simplifies setup with intuitive syntax, reducing configuration time and allowing for quick adjustments.
• Load Balancing Policies Supports multiple load-balancing strategies like round-robin, least connections, and first-available to optimize performance.
• Built-In Health Checks Ensures backend server availability by checking health endpoints and bypassing down servers as needed.
• HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Support Enhances content delivery with modern HTTP protocols, providing faster and more reliable connections.
• Traffic Monitoring Provides logging and status monitoring, allowing insights into traffic patterns and server health.
• Header and Rate Control Customizable headers for security and caching, with rate limiting to protect backend resources.

Caddy Load Balancer Use cases

• Scaling Web Applications Distribute requests across multiple servers to improve response times and increase availability.
• SSL Termination Offload SSL handling to the load balancer, simplifying certificate management and enhancing security.
• API Gateway Securely route and manage traffic to APIs, providing load balancing and SSL for sensitive data.
• Microservices Architecture Simplify microservice management by routing requests to appropriate services based on paths or domains.
• High-Traffic Websites Ensure reliable performance for high-traffic websites with Caddy’s load balancing and caching.

Caddy Load Balancer is a flexible and easy-to-use alternative to traditional load balancers like NGINX, HAProxy, and Traefik, offering simple configuration, automatic HTTPS, and efficient load balancing for modern web applications.

Getting started documentation and support from: Caddy Load Balancer on Azure

Disclaimer: Caddy® is a registered trademark of Light Code Labs, LLC and is licensed under Apache License 2.0 license. The license comes with a "no warranty" clause, meaning the software is provided "as-is" without any guarantees or liability for issues that may arise.