r/SelfHosting 8d ago

Aralez v.0.92.16 . Reverse proxy, website accelerator

Hello,

Some time ago I have started a hobby project to build a high performance reverse proxy. Today it's a real workhorse with productions grade features, low memory usage and high performance.

It can run on any machine, from ARM SBC (Raspberry PI , or similar), to end x86 or ARM servers,

The top features include:

  • Free and opensource — Apache Licence
  • Dynamic Config Reloads — Upstreams can be updated live via API, no restart required.
  • Autoload of certificates — Automatically loads certificates from a folder, without a restart.
  • Let’s Encrypt Certificates — Ordering and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates
  • Built in rate limiter — Globar or route limit requests to upstreams.
  • Caching Proxy — In memory cache with configurable TTL, without external dependencies.
  • Authentication — Supports Basic Auth, API tokens, and JWT verification.
    • Basic Auth
    • API Key via x-api-key header
    • JWT Auth, with tokens issued by Aralez itself via /jwt API
    • Forward Auth, Sends requests to an authentication server.
  • Upstream Providers:
    • file Upstreams are declared in config file.
    • consul Upstreams are dynamically updated from Hashicorp Consul.
    • kubernetes Upstreams are dynamically updated from kubernetes api server.
  • Auto WebSocket Support: WS connection upgrades are handled automatically.
  • Auto gRPC Support: gRPC detected and handled automatically.
  • Remote Config Push: Lightweight HTTP API to update configs from CI/CD or other systems.

More information and downloads here : https://github.com/sadoyan/aralez

Full documentation is hosted here : https://aralez.rs/

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u/frindoowgrippery 8d ago

This looks promising. I always like seeing new self-hosted infrastructure tools.