BFE

Baidu's layer 7 load balancer with condition-based forwarding and hot-reloaded config.

Provider: default
Kind: Load balancer
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://www.bfe-networks.net

Properties · 5 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
configHotReload · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
connectionPreserving · advanced	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
global	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
hashing	enum	round-robin \| least-connections \| ecmp \| maglev \| consistent \| random	no	round-robin	inherited
healthChecks	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
instances	integer	—	no	—	inherited
layer	enum	l4 \| l7	no	l7	▸ l7
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
protocols · component property	enum	http \| https \| http2 \| spdy \| websocket	no	http	inherited

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# BFE (Beyond Front End): Baidu's layer 7 load balancer, a data plane of forwarding engines with a
3# separate control plane. Per the BFE README it terminates HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, SPDY and WebSocket
4# and routes by a condition-based forwarding table reloaded without restart.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "bfe"
8kind: "load-balancer"
9provider: "default"
10docs: "https://www.bfe-networks.net"
11defaults:
12  managed: false
13  layer: "l7"
14  healthChecks: true
15  global: false
16  connectionPreserving: false
17properties:
18  protocols:
19    type: "enum"
20    values: ["http", "https", "http2", "spdy", "websocket"]
21    default: "http"
22  configHotReload:
23    type: "boolean"
24    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/bfe.md