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Traefik

HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that configures routes dynamically from orchestrators and service registries

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License

MIT

Languages
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
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About Traefik

Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer for microservices. It connects services to the outside world by listening to an orchestrator or service registry API and generating routes dynamically, instead of requiring each path or subdomain to be configured by hand. Manual route configuration is also supported.

It continuously updates configuration without restarts, supports multiple load balancing algorithms, and can provide HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, including wildcard certificates. It supports circuit breakers, retries, WebSocket, HTTP/2, gRPC, a web UI, a REST API, metrics, and access logs in JSON or CLF.

Traefik integrates with Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher v2, Amazon ECS, and file-based configuration. It is packaged as a single Go binary and as an official Docker image. Releases follow Semantic Versioning, with release candidates before releases and bug-fix versions as needed.

Key features

  • Dynamic route generation from orchestrator and registry APIs
  • Configuration updates without restarts
  • Let's Encrypt HTTPS with wildcard certificate support
  • WebSocket, HTTP/2, and gRPC ready
  • Metrics, access logs, web UI, and REST API

Details

First released
2015
Packaging
Single Go binary · Docker image
Providers
Docker · Kubernetes · ECS · File
HTTPS
Let's Encrypt · wildcard certificates
Metrics
REST · Prometheus · Datadog · Statsd
Logs
JSON · CLF access logs