/traefik

The Cloud Native Edge Router

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Traefik

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Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, ...) and configures itself automatically and dynamically. Pointing Traefik at your orchestrator should be the only configuration step you need.


. Overview . Features . Supported backends . Quickstart . Web UI . Documentation .

. Support . Release cycle . Contributing . Maintainers . Credits .


⚠️ Please be aware that the old configurations for Traefik v1.X are NOT compatible with the v2.X config as of now. If you're running v2, please ensure you are using a v2 configuration.

Overview

Imagine that you have deployed a bunch of microservices with the help of an orchestrator (like Swarm or Kubernetes) or a service registry (like etcd or consul). Now you want users to access these microservices, and you need a reverse proxy.

Traditional reverse-proxies require that you configure each route that will connect paths and subdomains to each microservice. In an environment where you add, remove, kill, upgrade, or scale your services many times a day, the task of keeping the routes up to date becomes tedious.

This is when Traefik can help you!

Traefik listens to your service registry/orchestrator API and instantly generates the routes so your microservices are connected to the outside world -- without further intervention from your part.

Run Traefik and let it do the work for you! (But if you'd rather configure some of your routes manually, Traefik supports that too!)

Architecture

Features

  • Continuously updates its configuration (No restarts!)
  • Supports multiple load balancing algorithms
  • Provides HTTPS to your microservices by leveraging Let's Encrypt (wildcard certificates support)
  • Circuit breakers, retry
  • See the magic through its clean web UI
  • Websocket, HTTP/2, GRPC ready
  • Provides metrics (Rest, Prometheus, Datadog, Statsd, InfluxDB)
  • Keeps access logs (JSON, CLF)
  • Fast
  • Exposes a Rest API
  • Packaged as a single binary file (made with ❤️ with go) and available as a tiny official docker image

Supported Backends

Quickstart

To get your hands on Traefik, you can use the 5-Minute Quickstart in our documentation (you will need Docker).

Web UI

You can access the simple HTML frontend of Traefik.

Web UI Providers

Documentation

You can find the complete documentation at https://docs.traefik.io. A collection of contributions around Traefik can be found at https://awesome.traefik.io.

⚠️ If you're testing out v2, please ensure you are using the v2 documentation.

Support

To get community support, you can:

  • join the Traefik community forum: Join the chat at https://community.containo.us/

If you need commercial support, please contact Containo.us by mail: mailto:support@containo.us.

Download

./traefik --configFile=traefik.toml
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 -v $PWD/traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml traefik
  • Or get the sources:
git clone https://github.com/containous/traefik

Introductory Videos

⚠️ Please be aware that these videos are for v1.X. The old configurations for Traefik v1.X are NOT compatible with Traefik v2. If you're running v2, please ensure you are using a v2 configuration.

Here is a talk given by Emile Vauge at GopherCon 2017. You will learn Traefik basics in less than 10 minutes.

Traefik GopherCon 2017

Here is a talk given by Ed Robinson at ContainerCamp UK conference. You will learn fundamental Traefik features and see some demos with Kubernetes.

Traefik ContainerCamp UK

Maintainers

Information about process and maintainers

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to the project, refer to the contributing documentation.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

Release Cycle

  • We release a new version (e.g. 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0) every other month.
  • Release Candidates are available before the release (e.g. 1.1.0-rc1, 1.1.0-rc2, 1.1.0-rc3, 1.1.0-rc4, before 1.1.0)
  • Bug-fixes (e.g. 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.3) are released as needed (no additional features are delivered in those versions, bug-fixes only)

Each version is supported until the next one is released (e.g. 1.1.x will be supported until 1.2.0 is out)

We use Semantic Versioning

Mailing lists

Credits

Kudos to Peka for his awesome work on the logo logo.

Traefik's logo is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.

Traefik's logo was inspired by the gopher stickers made by Takuya Ueda (https://twitter.com/tenntenn). The original Go gopher was designed by Renee French (http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/).