Name: traefik
Owner: Containous
Description: Træfik, a modern reverse proxy
Created: 2015-09-13 19:04:02.0
Updated: 2018-01-19 22:34:46.0
Pushed: 2018-01-19 16:34:04.0
Homepage: https://traefik.io
Size: 21421
Language: Go
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Træfik (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.
. Overview . Features . Supported backends . Quickstart . Web UI . Test it . Documentation .
. Support . Release cycle . Contributing . Maintainers . Plumbing . Credits .
Imagine that you have deployed a bunch of microservices on your infrastructure. You probably used a service registry (like etcd or consul) and/or an orchestrator (swarm, Mesos/Marathon) to manage all these services. If you want your users to access some of your microservices from the Internet, you will have to use a reverse proxy and configure it using virtual hosts or prefix paths:
api.domain.com will point the microservice api in your private networkdomain.com/web will point the microservice web in your private networkbackoffice.domain.com will point the microservices backoffice in your private network, load-balancing between your multiple instancesMicroservices are often deployed in dynamic environments where services are added, removed, killed, upgraded or scaled many times a day.
Traditional reverse-proxies are not natively dynamic. You can't change their configuration and hot-reload easily.
Here enters Træfik.
Træfik can listen to your service registry/orchestrator API, and knows each time a microservice is added, removed, killed or upgraded, and can generate its configuration automatically. Routes to your services will be created instantly.
Run it and forget it!
You can have a quick look at Træfik in this Katacoda tutorial that shows how to load balance requests between multiple Docker containers. If you are looking for a more comprehensive and real use-case example, you can also check Play-With-Docker to see how to load balance between multiple nodes.
Here is a talk given by Emile Vauge at GopherCon 2017. You will learn Træfik basics in less than 10 minutes.
Here is a talk given by Ed Robinson at ContainerCamp UK conference. You will learn fundamental Træfik features and see some demos with Kubernetes.
You can access the simple HTML frontend of Træfik.
aefik --configFile=traefik.toml
er run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 -v $PWD/traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml traefik
clone https://github.com/containous/traefik
You can find the complete documentation at https://docs.traefik.io. A collection of contributions around Træfik can be found at https://awesome.traefik.io.
To get basic support, you can:
traefik tag)If you prefer commercial support, please contact containo.us by mail: mailto:support@containo.us.
Please refer to 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.
Information about process and maintainers
Kudos to Peka for his awesome work on the logo 
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Traefik's logo 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/).