S/W Defined Load Balancer (SSL Offloader), Firewall, WAF for Cloud Native application stack

Description: There are many next generation open source software defined solutions available to be used as Load Balancer and WAF. The objective of this task is to find the best suitable next generation solution and integrate it to orchestration platforms like OpenStack or Kubernetes. Team can use Mod-Security rules to create a WAF using a Proxy server like Nginx or Apache. Members who are interested in Network security can explore the Open Source Firewall options and its integration with Cloud infrastructure using APIs.

Resources:

• https://geekflare.com/open-source-load-balancer/
• https://freeloadbalancer.com/
• http://www.haproxy.org/
• https://www.modsecurity.org/
• https://www.nginx.com/blog/compiling-and-installing-modsecurity-for-open-source-nginx/

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