Cardea

Cardea is designed to be a high reliable and extremely fast TCP reverse proxy able to handle multiple backends with a load balancing strategy. We currently support two types of balancing policies:

• Round Robin [ROUND_ROBIN]
• Random Selection [RANDOM]

Build Status & Code Coverage

dev:

Installation / Usage

You can use Cardea as a standalone application or embedded in your application. Start cardea as a standalone application using command line

java -jar cardea-server-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -p 8081 -bp ROUND_ROBIN -b host:port,host:port,host:port... 

Embedded:

import CardeaServer;
import CardeaServerFactory;
import Backend;
import BackendBalancingType;
import CardeaConfig;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Felix Klauke <info@felix-klauke.de>
 */
public class CardeaServerTest {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		List<Backend> backends = new ArrayList<>();
		backends.add(new Backend("Backend #1", "{host}", 1234));
		backends.add(new Backend("Backend #2", "{host}", 1235));
		backends.add(new Backend("Backend #3", "{host}", 1236));
		
		CardeaConfig cardeaConfig = new CardeaConfig(8081, backends, BackendBalancingType.ROUND_ROBIN);
		
		CardeaServer cardeaServer = CardeaServerFactory.createCardeaServer(cardeaConfig);
		cardeaServer.start();
	}
}