Katana

A high-performance & easy-to-configure http server.

Features

• 🖍️ Simple Json-based configuration (VHost files 🤢).
• ✅ Sensible defaults (no more Apache/Nginx proxy issues).
• 💻 Cross platform (runs on Java 11 LTS).
• ⚡ Freaky fast (doesn't compromise performance to be light-weight).
• ⚖️ Light-weight (runs happily with 80mb of ram and 15% VCPU).
• 📈 Constantly improving (frequent updates & fixes).
• 🔒 Secure (say goodbye to zero-days).

Get started

Read the wiki to learn how to configure & setup Katana.

Who's it used by?

Casterlabs (Us!)

We've built Katana to handle our http infrastructure and to expose our API services to the web. With Katana, we serve 5.9M HTTP requests and 1.2M WebSocket sessions a month totalling 4.3TB.

Other People

"I've been using Katana as a reverse proxy for my homelab. It works great out-of-the-box for things like Proxmox that normally require a lot of configuring to get working correctly." - Max Kulik