Overview

What is BFE?

  • BFE is an open-source layer 7 load balancer derived from proprietary Baidu Front End.

Advantages

  • Multiple protocols supported, including HTTP,HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, WebSocket, TLS, etc.

  • Content based routing, support user-defined routing rule in advanced domain-specific language.

  • Support multiple load balancing policies.

  • Flexible plugin framework to extend functionality. Based on the framework, developer can add new features rapidly.

  • Detailed built-in metrics available for service status monitor.