Vulcand
=======

Vulcand is a programmatic extendable proxy for microservices and API management.
It is inspired by [Hystrix](https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix) and powers Mailgun microservices infrastructure.

Focus and priorities
--------------------
Vulcand is focused on microservices and API use-cases.

Features
--------

* Uses Etcd as a configuration backend.
* API and command line tool.
* Pluggable middlewares.
* Support for canary deploys, realtime metrics and resiliency.

![Vulcan diagram](http://coreos.com/assets/images/media/vulcan-1-upstream.png "Vulcan diagram")

Project info
------------

| documentation | http://vulcand.github.io/                                   |
| :------------- |:-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| status        | Used in production@Mailgun on moderate workloads.  Under active development.              |
| discussions   | https://groups.google.com/d/forum/vulcan-proxy                  |
| roadmap       | [roadmap.md](ROADMAP.md)                  |
| build status  | [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/vulcand/vulcand.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mailgun/vulcand) |


Vulcand
=======

Vulcand is a programmatic extendable proxy for microservices and API management.
It is inspired by [Hystrix](https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix) and powers Mailgun microservices infrastructure.

Focus and priorities
--------------------
Vulcand is focused on microservices and API use-cases.

Features
--------

* Uses Etcd as a configuration backend.
* API and command line tool.
* Pluggable middlewares.
* Support for canary deploys, realtime metrics and resiliency.

![Vulcan diagram](http://coreos.com/assets/images/media/vulcan-1-upstream.png "Vulcan diagram")

Project info
------------

| documentation | http://vulcand.github.io/                                   |
| :------------- |:-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| status        | Used in production@Mailgun on moderate workloads.  Under active development.              |
| discussions   | https://groups.google.com/d/forum/vulcan-proxy                  |
| roadmap       | [roadmap.md](ROADMAP.md)                  |
| build status  | [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/vulcand/vulcand.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/vulcand/vulcand) |


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