Traefik Proxy
A cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer that discovers routes from orchestrator metadata.
Overview
Traefik is a reverse proxy and load balancer that reads routing information from the platform it runs on. It can obtain certificates automatically and update routes as containers or services appear and disappear.
Where it fits
- Publishing containerized services
- TLS termination for dynamic environments
- Routing traffic across multiple backends
Key capabilities
- Provider-based service discovery
- Automatic certificate management
- HTTP and TCP routing
- Middleware for auth, headers, and rate limits
Repository metadata
- Stars (snapshot)
- 65,471
- Main language
- Go
- License
- MIT
- Topics
- consul, docker, gateway, gatewayapi, go, golang, ingress-nginx, kubernetes, letsencrypt, load-balancer, microservice, opentelemetry, reverse-proxy, traefik
- Category
- Infrastructure
- Last push
- 2026-11-05T11:02:07Z
Repository description from GitHub metadata: The Cloud Native Application Proxy
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