SKUDONET Load Balancer Community Edition V7.2.1

SKUDONET Load Balancer and Application Delivery Controller with advanced WAF and IPDS for Microsoft Azure.

SKUDONET is simple to deploy and administer, with RESTful Data Plane API or JSON-based load balancing algorithms, SSL offloading, SSL/TLS certificate automation (including Let's Encrypt integration) and sNAT for SNI Load Balancing.

MASSIVE SCALABILITY

• Load Balancing and high availability in layers 3, 4, 2 and 7 for IPv4/IPv6 up-links, routers, applications and data centers.
• Support of protocols tcp, udp, sctp, sip, ftp, tftp, http, https, rdp, ssh, pop3, imap, smtp, dns, ntp, ldap, ldaps, radius, etc and applications MS Exchange, Lync, Citrix, and more.
• Advanced HTTP reverse proxy features, session persistence, redirections, virtual hosts, SSL certificates (SNI and wildcard), cookie insertion, reverse proxy, among others.
• Advanced health checks of servers.
• Traffic scalability and distribution by weight, round robin, cpu load, memory, least connections, least response, etc.
• Support of dNAT (transparency), sNAT, DSR and Stateless dNAT topologies.
• Optimized 64 bits operating system ready for massive scalable systems.

SECURITY

• SSL Offload, on the fly decryption encryption.
• A+ in SSL Labs and PCI compliance.
• IPS and IDS. DoS, Blacklists, Botnets, RBL, Web Application Firewall.
• Security analyzer.
• Reporting and Audit system.

SYSTEM

• Backups and recovery procedures.
• Active-passive stateful cluster service with automated replication.
• Monitoring SNMP, REST graphs, and email notifications.
• Automation REST JSON API.
• RBAC.

USABILITY

• Responsive and user-friendly web graphic user interface.
• Easy upgrades and maintenance.

VERSION RELEASE NOTES

ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC RELEASE
To learn more about the specific capabilities of this release, please read: Free Open Source Load Balancer with WAF.

Important note: We strongly recommend keeping your SKUDONET instance always updated to the latest release to ensure maximum security, stability, and access to new features. To discover our current development status and future releases, please check our official Timeline.

USAGE INSTRUCTIONS

1. Connect via SSH using the admin user and the SSH key configured during the instance creation process.
2. Elevate privileges to the root user by executing the command: sudo su -
3. Create a new secure password for the root user by executing the command: passwd root
4. Access the web administration interface by navigating to https://<PUBLIC_IP>:444 in your browser. Log in using the user root and the password you created in the previous step.