https://github.com/alauda/alb

ALB (Another Load Balancer) is a Kubernetes Gateway powered by OpenResty with years of production experience from Alauda.
https://github.com/alauda/alb

gateway ingress ingress-controller kubernetes networking openresty operator

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ALB (Another Load Balancer) is a Kubernetes Gateway powered by OpenResty with years of production experience from Alauda.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alauda/alb
• Owner: alauda
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2024-01-05T02:49:37.000Z (6 months ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-21T09:06:29.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T12:17:07.571Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: gateway, ingress, ingress-controller, kubernetes, networking, openresty, operator
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 13.2 MB
• Stars: 55
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
# ALB -- Another Load Balancer

ALB (Another Load Balancer) is a Kubernetes Gateway powered by [OpenResty](https://github.com/openresty/) with years of production experience from Alauda.

> *Note*: We are in the process of preparing the necessary documentation and refactoring the code for open source. More information and detailed usage will be made available soon.

## Advantages

- **Isolation and Multi-Tenant**: With ALB operator, multiple ALB instances can be created and managed in one cluster. Each tenant can has a group of dedicated ALB instances.

- **Ingress and Gateway API Support**: Users can flexibly choose between Ingress and Gateway API according to their own preferences.

- **Flexible User Defined Traffic Rule**: ALB provides a traffic rule DSL that can support more complex traffic matching and distribution scenarios that beyond the capabilities of standard Ingress and Gateway API.

- **Multiple Protocol Support**: ALB can manage HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and UDP traffic.

## Architecture

![](docs/architecture.png)

## Quick Start

### Deploy the ALB Operator

1. Create a kind cluster

2. `helm repo add alb https://alauda.github.io/alb/;helm repo update;helm search repo|grep alb`

3. `helm install alb-operator alb/alauda-alb2` 

### Deploy an ALB Instance

```bash

cat <