Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker 🐳, Swarm 🐳 🐳, Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.

Features

• It's fast
• No dependency hell, single binary made with go
• Rest API
• Multiple backends supported: Docker, Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, and more to come
• Watchers for backends, can listen change in backends to apply a new configuration automatically
• Hot-reloading of configuration. No need to restart the process
• Graceful shutdown http connections
• Circuit breakers on backends
• Round Robin, rebalancer load-balancers
• Rest Metrics
• Tiny docker image included
• SSL backends support
• SSL frontend support (with SNI)
• Clean AngularJS Web UI
• Websocket support
• HTTP/2 support
• Retry request if network error
• Let's Encrypt support (Automatic HTTPS)

Demo

Here is a demo of Træfɪk using Docker backend, showing a load-balancing between two servers, hot reloading of configuration, and graceful shutdown.

Web UI

You can access to a simple HTML frontend of Træfik.

Plumbing

• Oxy: an awsome proxy library made by Mailgun guys
• Gorilla mux: famous request router
• Negroni: web middlewares made simple
• Manners: graceful shutdown of http.Handler servers
• Lego: the best Let's Encrypt library in go

Quick start

• The simple way: grab the latest binary from the releases page and just run it with the sample configuration file:

./traefik -c traefik.toml

• Use the tiny Docker image:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 -v $PWD/traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml containous/traefik

• From sources:

git clone https://github.com/containous/traefik

Documentation

You can find the complete documentation here.

Contributing

Please refer to this section.

Træfɪk here and there

These projects use Træfɪk internally. If your company uses Træfɪk, we would be glad to get your feedback :) Contact us on

• Project Mantl from Cisco

Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services. A container orchestrator, docker, a network stack, something to pool your logs, something to monitor health, a sprinkle of service discovery and some automation.

• Project Apollo from Cap Gemini

Apollo is an open source project to aid with building and deploying IAAS and PAAS services. It is particularly geared towards managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, and big data type workloads. Apollo leverages other open source components to provide basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of infrastructure and applications.

Partners

Zenika is one of the leading providers of professional Open Source services and agile methodologies in Europe. We provide consulting, development, training and support for the world’s leading Open Source software products.

Founded in 2014, Asteris creates next-generation infrastructure software for the modern datacenter. Asteris writes software that makes it easy for companies to implement continuous delivery and realtime data pipelines. We support the HashiCorp stack, along with Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Spark and Kafka. We're core committers on mantl.io, consul-cli and mesos-consul. .