├── README.md
├── whoami.conf
├── nginx.conf
└── docker-compose.yml


/README.md:
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 1 | # Traefik vs Nginx Benchmark
 2 | 
 3 | ```
 4 | # Traefik v3.0
 5 | wrk -t20 -c1000 -d3s -H "Host: benchmark.whoami" --latency  http://127.0.0.1:8000/bench
 6 | 
 7 | # Traefik v2.9
 8 | wrk -t20 -c1000 -d3s -H "Host: benchmark.whoami" --latency  http://127.0.0.1:8002/bench
 9 | 
10 | # Nginx
11 | wrk -t20 -c1000 -d3s -H "Host: benchmark.whoami" --latency  http://127.0.0.1:8001/bench
12 | 
13 | # Pure Whoami
14 | wrk -t20 -c1000 -d3s -H "Host: benchmark.whoami" --latency  http://127.0.0.1:8003/bench
15 | ```


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/whoami.conf:
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 1 | upstream whoami {
 2 |     server whoami-1:80;
 3 |     server whoami-2:80;
 4 |     server whoami-3:80;
 5 |     server whoami-4:80;
 6 |     keepalive 300;
 7 | }
 8 | 
 9 | server {
10 |     listen 8001;
11 |     server_name benchmark.whoami;
12 |     access_log off;
13 |     error_log /dev/null crit;
14 | 
15 |     location / {
16 |         proxy_pass http://whoami;
17 |         proxy_http_version 1.1;
18 |         proxy_set_header Connection "";
19 |         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
20 |         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
21 |         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port 80;
22 |         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
23 |         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $server_addr;
24 |         proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
25 |     }
26 | }


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/nginx.conf:
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 1 | user nginx;
 2 | worker_processes auto;
 3 | worker_rlimit_nofile 200000;
 4 | pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
 5 | 
 6 | events {
 7 |     worker_connections 10000;
 8 |     use epoll;
 9 |     multi_accept on;
10 | }
11 | 
12 | http {
13 |     sendfile on;
14 |     tcp_nopush on;
15 |     tcp_nodelay on;
16 |     keepalive_timeout 300;
17 |     keepalive_requests 10000;
18 |     types_hash_max_size 2048;
19 | 
20 |     open_file_cache max=200000 inactive=300s;
21 |     open_file_cache_valid 300s;
22 |     open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
23 |     open_file_cache_errors on;
24 | 
25 |     server_tokens off;
26 |     dav_methods off;
27 | 
28 |     include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
29 |     default_type application/octet-stream;
30 | 
31 |     access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined;
32 |     error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
33 | 
34 |     gzip off;
35 |     gzip_vary off;
36 | 
37 |     include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
38 |     include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
39 | }


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/docker-compose.yml:
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 1 | version: "3.9"
 2 | 
 3 | services:
 4 |   traefik-v3.0:
 5 |     image: "traefik:v3.0"
 6 |     command:
 7 |       - "--api.insecure=true"
 8 |       - "--providers.docker=true"
 9 |       - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
10 |       - "--entrypoints.web.address=:8000"
11 |       - "--serverstransport.maxidleconnsperhost=100000"
12 |     ports:
13 |       - "8000:8000"
14 |     volumes:
15 |       - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
16 | 
17 |   traefik-v2.9:
18 |     image: "traefik:v2.9"
19 |     command:
20 |       - "--api.insecure=true"
21 |       - "--providers.docker=true"
22 |       - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
23 |       - "--entrypoints.web.address=:8002"
24 |       - "--serverstransport.maxidleconnsperhost=100000"
25 |     ports:
26 |       - "8002:8002"
27 |     volumes:
28 |       - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
29 | 
30 |   nginx:
31 |     image: nginx:alpine
32 |     ports:
33 |       - "8001:8001"
34 |     volumes:
35 |       - "./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro"
36 |       - "./whoami.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/whoami.conf:ro"
37 | 
38 |   whoami-1:
39 |     image: "containous/whoami"
40 |     ports:
41 |       - "8003:80"
42 |     labels:
43 |       - "traefik.enable=true"
44 |       - "traefik.http.routers.go-benchmark.rule=Host(`benchmark.whoami`)"
45 |       - "traefik.http.services.go-benchmark.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
46 | 
47 |   whoami-2:
48 |     image: "containous/whoami"
49 |     labels:
50 |       - "traefik.enable=true"
51 |       - "traefik.http.routers.go-benchmark.rule=Host(`benchmark.whoami`)"
52 |       - "traefik.http.services.go-benchmark.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
53 | 
54 |   whoami-3:
55 |     image: "containous/whoami"
56 |     labels:
57 |       - "traefik.enable=true"
58 |       - "traefik.http.routers.go-benchmark.rule=Host(`benchmark.whoami`)"
59 |       - "traefik.http.services.go-benchmark.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
60 | 
61 |   whoami-4:
62 |     image: "containous/whoami"
63 |     labels:
64 |       - "traefik.enable=true"
65 |       - "traefik.http.routers.go-benchmark.rule=Host(`benchmark.whoami`)"
66 |       - "traefik.http.services.go-benchmark.loadbalancer.server.port=80"


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