The release of the SKUDONET 7.1 project, which develops a specialized distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, optimized for deploying traffic balancers and reverse proxies, as well as for creating application delivery infrastructure. It supports both the creation of HTTP/HTTPS load balancers and the implementation of services for distributing arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic across nodes. The system is managed and monitored via a web interface. The bootable ISO image size is 844 MB. In addition to the pre-built build, a package repository is provided that can be used to create a SKUDONET environment based on existing systems. Debian.
The release is based on Debian 12 and comes with the kernel Linux 6.1.90. Changes compared to the previous branch include expanded hardware support and the use of new features introduced in kernel 6.1 related to the network stack, virtualization, memory management, security, and power management (the previous SKUDONET Community Edition branch used kernel 4.19). Added support for detection IP addresses in the balancer via DHCP. The ability to specify is provided domain names instead of IP addresses when configuring backends in the balancer.
Source: opennet.ru
