ExpressGateway

ShieldBlaze ExpressGateway

ShieldBlaze ExpressGateway is a High-Performance, Scalable, and Highly-Available Load Balancer.

Current Status: In-development | Last Call

Features:

L4:

• ✔️ Load Balancing for TCP/UDP
• ✔️ Full IPv6 Support

L7:

• ✔️ HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2
• ✔️ HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1 Translation
• ✔️ HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 Translation
• ✔️ Reverse Proxy
• ✔️ HTTP Compression (GZIP, Deflate and Brotli)
• ✔️ HTTP Connection Pool
• ✔️ WebSocket
• HTTP Caching

TLS:

• ✔️ TLS Support (v1.1, v1.2 and v1.3)
• ✔️ TLS Offload
• ✔️ Mutual TLS
• ✔️ OCSP Stapling
• ✔️ OCSP Certificate Validation
• ✔️ Server Name Indication (SNI) Support
• ✔️ StartTLS Support

Health Checking:

• ✔️ L4 Based Health Check using TCP/UDP
• ✔️ L7 Based Health Check using HTTP/HTTPS

Load Balancing Methods:

L4:

• ✔️ Random
• ✔️ Round Robin
• ✔️ Least Connection
• ✔️ Least Load

L7:

• ✔️ HTTP Random
• ✔️ HTTP Round Robin

Session Persistence:

• ✔️ 5-Tuple Hash (Source IP + Source Port + Destination IP + Destination Port + Protocol)
• ✔️ Source IP Hash
• ✔️ Long-Lived Sessions
• ✔️ HTTP Cookie

Security:

• ✔️ Access Control List (ACL)
• ✔️ Per-Connection Rate-Limit
• ✔️ Per-Packet Rate-Limit
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Cloud Integration:

• ✔️ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure (Azure)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)