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Keepalived vs SmartStack: What are the differences?

What is Keepalived? A routing software written in C. The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.

What is SmartStack? Automated service discovery and registration framework. Scaling a web infrastructure requires services, and building a service-oriented infrastructure is hard. Make it EASY, with SmartStack’s automated, transparent service discovery and registration: cruise control for your distributed infrastructure.

Keepalived and SmartStack can be primarily classified as "Open Source Service Discovery" tools.

SmartStack is an open source tool with 227 GitHub stars and 41 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SmartStack's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Keepalived
Pros of SmartStack
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    Load Balancer
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    Extremely fast (IPVS)
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    2 nodes HA cluster management
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    Virtual IP HA with VRRP
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    Elegant and powerful

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What is Keepalived?

The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.

What is SmartStack?

Scaling a web infrastructure requires services, and building a service-oriented infrastructure is hard. Make it EASY, with SmartStack’s automated, transparent service discovery and registration: cruise control for your distributed infrastructure.

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