cobalt is a minimal, high performance reverse proxy written in rust using tokio. It's the greatly improved descendant of the earlier pine. It focuses on simplicity and speed, with >1ms of latency added to most requests. It also feature massively improved performance, with benchmarks on an i5-1135 showing an average maximum throughput of ~100,000 rps.

to install, you'll need cargo and git installed.

You can then run

cargo install --git https://github.com/blobcode/cobalt.git

to get up and running, just install and run cobalt -c <path to config file>. Please note that cobalt will need to be placed behind ssl termination, as it works with http only.

cobalt is designed to be minimal and feature a small amount of config. An example config file can be found in cobalt.toml.

written with ❤️ by blobcode