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Traefik

A cloud-native edge router with auto-discovery.

Traefik watches container orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Nomad, ECS, Marathon) for new services and configures routing, load-balancing, and TLS automatically. New services become reachable on the public internet without manual reverse- proxy edits — labels on a Docker container or a Kubernetes Ingress resource declare the desired routing, and Traefik picks up the change.

The dashboard provides a real-time view of all routes, middlewares, services, and TLS certificates. Built-in integration with Let's Encrypt makes automatic HTTPS straightforward — point Traefik at a domain and it will request and renew certificates for you.

Traefik Labs (formerly Containous) develops Traefik. The project is MIT-licensed and has become the default ingress for many small Kubernetes and Docker Compose deployments. Traefik 3 brought significant improvements to the plugin system and configuration model, and the company offers a commercial Traefik Enterprise tier with additional features.

Download a release binary from https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases
Or run as a container:
  docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 8080:8080 traefik:latest