DNS & Networking Reverse Proxy stable

Traefik

Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer

53.0K stars Since 2020
Website → GitHub

Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer

License
MIT
Min RAM
256 MB
Min CPUs
1 core
Scaling
single_node
Complexity
beginner
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
✓
K8s native
✕
Offline
✕
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • ✓ Primary: dynamic-reverse-proxy
  • ✓ Primary: kubernetes-ingress
  • ✓ Primary: automatic-ssl

Integrates with

Docker (Moby)
Container Runtime
GitLab CE
CI/CD
Nextcloud
File Storage
Kubernetes
Orchestration
n8n
Workflow

Complements

Docker (Moby)
Container Runtime
Kubernetes
Orchestration

Compare with alternatives

Conflicts with

Caddy
DNS & Networking
Nginx
DNS & Networking

Replaces / alternatives to

  • Nginx
  • HAProxy
  • AWS ALB

Technical specs

Language
Go
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Deployment
dockerbinary

Community

GitHub stars 53.0K
Contributors 0
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Traefik Labs
Funding vc_backed

Release

Latest version —
Last release —
Since 2020

Best fit

Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
general

Tags

  • reverse-proxy
  • auto-discovery
  • ssl
  • middleware
  • kubernetes-ingress
  • docker-integration