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Traefik Overview

What is Traefik?

Traefik is a leading modern reverse proxy and ingress controller that makes deploying services and APIs easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically. Traefik is designed to be as simple as possible to operate, but capable of handling large, highly-complex deployments across a wide range of environments and protocols in public, private, and hybrid clouds. It also comes with a powerful set of middlewares that enhance its capabilities to include load balancing, API gateway, orchestrator ingress, and more. About Traefik Labs Traefik Labs helps organizations adopt and scale cloud-native architectures by providing a modern, intuitive, and open platform that reimagines application connectivity and API management, paving the way for seamless operations and enhanced productivity. Traefik’s flagship open source project, Traefik Proxy has surpassed 3 billion downloads and 45,000 GitHub stars continuing to be one of the fastest-growing technologies in the cloud native ecosystem. It has maintained a 6-year streak as the #1 API Gateway by OSS Insight, and ranked among the top 15 most downloaded images from Docker Hub.

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Traefik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.


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Traefik Labs helps organizations adopt and scale cloud-native architectures by providing a modern, intuitive, and open platform that reimagines application connectivity and API management, paving the way for seamless operations and enhanced productivity. Traefik’s flagship open source project, Traefik Proxy, is used by the world’s largest enterprises and is one of Docker Hub’s top 10 projects, with over 3 billion downloads. Founded in 2016, Traefik Labs is backed by investors including Balderton Capital, Elaia, 360 Capital Partner, and Kima Ventures. For more information, visit traefik.io and follow @traefik on X.


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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"An invaluable tool for teams looking for hassle-free, cloud-native reverse proxy implementation"
The simplicity: It works extremely well as an on-premise reverse proxy implementation for teams that are adopting containerization and modern devel...
Aldira R.
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Aldira R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Flexible, easy to use Load Balancer for everyone"
Flexibility on defining configuration in various different environments. The native support for docker using label is very smart
Thomas V.
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Thomas V.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great for small and large projects"
Super easy to integrate with docker and very simple to configure and extend 👌
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Traefik Demo - Traefik Runtime Platform
Traefik Labs offers cloud native, fully declarative runtime solutions for demanding DevOps and Platform engineers with diverse use-cases, environments, and deployment models.
Traefik Demo - Traefik Proxy OSS
Traefik is a leading modern open source reverse proxy and ingress controller that makes deploying services and APIs easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.
Traefik Demo - Traefik Hub API Gateway
As developer’s #1 cloud native API Gateway, Traefik Hub API Gateway combines the world’s most trusted cloud native, fully declarative application proxy with enterprise-grade access control, native WAF, distributed security, and premium integrations. Also available as an AI gateway. If using Tr...
Traefik Demo - Traefik Hub API Management
Traefik Hub provides an API Management as Code platform to DevOps and Platform Engineering Teams who favor less ClickOps and more GitOps-driven API lifecycle workflows. This includes the full runtime lifecycle from API mocking (in a production-like environment) to publishing, securing, and monito...
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What do you like best about Traefik?

With traefik we can keep the routing config in version control since it is attached to the service labels on the service container. We can keep the container and proxy settings in the same place so the service and be deployed and updated faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

It needs some templating system to avoid repeating config lines that are the same in many of our services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily keep track of hundreds of proxy settings and keep them in sync with the associated containers. When a service reaches EOL and is removed, then traefik settings are removed too since they are attached to the service labels of the container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Traefik?

Lightweight micro-service service-discovery, support extensively for docker swarm, data center, Kubernetes.

1. Support Let's Encrypt automatic SSL certificate generation for all subdomains

2. Came along with load balancing. Also, we don't need to re-route traffic through Nginx as we do in Kubernetes if we open 80 and 443 ports

3. For all micro-services, add traefik configuration in the docker-compose file as service labels

4. Supports logging tools like jeager, prometheus, grafana

5. Cloud-native application proxy.

6. Less learning curve compared to Istio ingress

7. Excellent routing and traffic rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

1. Does not support logging tools natively; needs to install and configure separately.

2. Performance is not better if service increases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have around five services running in docker swarm containers. Needed for lightweight service discovery, found out traefik, it solved our service meshes and enabled subdomain routing without Nginx. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christian R.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

I've had the joy of setting up traefik as reverse proxy for prometheus and grafana.

It's a great piece of software, written in Golang and open source. Let me explain what it makes so unique compared to Nginx/Apache/Haproxy.

traefik provides different way for configuration. You can feed it with YAML, JSON or TOML. There is no custom format, like in Nginx.

If you ever wrote a custom Ansible module for Nginx you know what I mean... with Traefik you can just pipe the YAML 1 to 1 to the traefik configuration. For configuration purposes Traefik provides an API and a nice dashboard, which helps for debugging. Traefik also provides natively prometheus metrics (something that nginx or apache do not) and I think that the router/middleware/service concept is pretty unique. Right now I am testing it in Kubernetes Environment and I am convinced so far, that I am going to use it as Ingress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

While working on my reverse proxy setup for prometheus and grafana with traefik I had some difficulties with error debugging and the correct config file format. The configuration can be either in YAML, TOML or JSON and provides different elements like routers, middlewares and services. This concept is new for somebody who comes from the Nginx/Apache world and it might be difficult to fully understand it. During my setup I encountered a few situations, where I had the feeling that the debugging/logging output is not mature enough. I would like to have more verbose debugging. I am used to nginx, nginx can specify the exact error why something is not working. With traefik, however, this is far more difficult. Sometimes it's not clear why the middleware or why the service is not catching up the specific router. I wish there would be an explanation for the debugging output and maybe an in-depth guide for debugging and traefik troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used Traefik as reverse proxy for Grafana and Prometheus. I've realized that the configuration is far shorter, but equal verbose as for Nginx. It also has sane TLS defaults, that is a big bonus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Traefik?

Traefik is very fast, understandable and tunable reverse-proxy and load-balancer. SSL with Let's Encrypt (auto-renew, one description for every entry points, security headers to have a hardened configuration) is a strong and good feature.

- Support is pro-active and development is fluent.

- Active community and helpful CM all over the world

- Nice and dynamic web UI

- Don't have to setup a strong architecture - Traefik just need to be in front of the web and that's it

- Auto discover is a fantastic functionality and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

Traefik deserves to be rigorous (yaml formatting). There are no real problem, you just have to be careful read the docs and be helped by the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Traefik:

Learn it, try it, use it and spread the word ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reverse-proxying services on a server with Traefik is very easy and secure. fast deployment and no bottleneck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

André F.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

Traefik fits perfectly any container orquestrator (Swarm mode or Kubernetes) in a very simple deployment, replacing any reverse proxy (or ingress controller) you had before *AND* negotiating let's encrypt certificates for HTTPS easily. Traefik listens to any other deployment and reconfigures itself automagically.

I recommend Traefik to beginners and seasoned developers. It just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

Debugging is a bit harsh (default is very silent). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Traefik:

Using Traefik is simpler than the usual pair "nginx ingress + cert-manager" in Kubernetes. You should give it a try, but finding the proper settings can take some time (specially when trying Let's Encrypt certificates). You should turn on debugging to understand what is happening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

I usually deploy Traefik as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller in self-service clusters provisioned by "fire-and-forget" automations. In simpler deployments Traefik does the same job for Swarm mode clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian C.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

Easy, feature-rich, and one tool which solves multiple customer use-cases. We really like the fact of how easy it is to deploy Traefik and get up and running with load-balancing, service discovery, and serving let's encrypt certificates. We use it for all of our customer demos and build a lot of services surrounding Traefik . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

Not enough time to try all the features.

- room for improvement in documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a DevOps consultancy, we try to choose tools that can solve multiple problems while limiting the number of tools which we deploy. Traefik is such a tool which checks both of these boxes.

- reverse proxy

- edge proxy

- Let's Encrypt

- Load Balancing

- Monitoring

- Service discovery

- Docker Reverse-Proxy

- Kubernetes Ingress

- easy bootstrap full-stack application w/Traefik Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilesh Y.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

The best part is its configuration is simple and it discover backend services on dynamic way without restart.

We have deployed this Product in MCE/Multi client environment to discover backend services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

It's pretty complicated to migrate from traefik 1.x to 2.x version because not any proper document available on official site.

There is not any log rotation inbuilt feature available in traefik Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had lots of service running inside the MCE Environment. Its pretty helpful to us to achieve multiple task with single product without integrating different product for different task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naushad W.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

Super Easy to use,

Awesome documentation,

Integrated SSl solution provided by Let's Encrypt,

the most I like about this is it's routing mechanism without any additional configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

As I am using traefic for last more than one year overall I am satisfied but just one thing I always think that they should provide documentation (a batter one) about how to configure as It takes too much time to figure out by .toml file which is all try and catch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Traefik:

If You are deploying microservices very often, traefic is the best option available as of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

while I was using Nginx and IIS it was really hard to manage frontend and backend services and their respective networking traefik did a real good job there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jake H.
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What do you like best about Traefik?

Traefik is very easy to install regardless of which backend you're planning on using. Configuration is just as easy.

The Kubernetes integration is top-notch and makes it very easy to manage configuration, adding/removing routes, middleware, etc with standard tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Traefik?

Traefik is still adding features. Support for UDP was only added recently and there are many other things still in the works.

That said, features do come quick and the developers & community are quick to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Traefik solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm using Traefik as the Ingress controller for multiple Kubernetes clusters. Traefik manages ingress routes and middleware for dynamically deployed applications which are spun up on-demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.