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Vulcand is a reverse proxy for HTTP API management and microservices. It is inspired by Hystrix.

It uses Etcd as a configuration backend, so changes to configuration take effect immediately without restarting the service.

Warning

Status: Under active development. Used at Mailgun on moderate workloads.

Note

Version used in this documentation: v0.8.0-beta.2

• Quick Start
  • Example: setting up Vulcand
• User Manual
  • Glossary
  • Configuration
  • TLS
  • Metrics
  • Logging
  • Process management
  • Installation
• Middlewares
  • Middlewares
  • Middleware Chains
  • Vbundle
• API Reference
  • Status
  • Log severity
  • Host
  • Listener
  • Backend
  • Server
  • Frontend
  • Rate limit
  • Connection limit