At Razorpay, the tool is used as a reverse proxy, ingress controller, and CRD management. A year and a half ago, my company started to move from Traefik Enterprise v1.0 to Traefik Enterprise v2.0. The tool handles everything, including the integrations with our different cloud providers and some of the other features we use in our company, such as rate limiting, which is something that is available within Traefik Enterprise.
Traefik Enterprise
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Flexible, easy to use Load Balancer for everyone
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility on defining configuration in various different environments. The native support for docker using label is very smart
What do you dislike about the product?
Navigating through docs to find examples is a little bit challenging because they must provide examples for every single environment (docker, kubernetes, or even file). But once you get it, it is convenient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Homelab setup with a lot of docker compose. Native support for docker with labels as config is very fitting to my use case
Though it has a steep learning curve, Traefik has powerful tools for routing among docker containers
What do you like best about the product?
There are several things that I really like about traefik. Firstly, I like the organization it gives me in my hosting setup. I run several websites from the same host, and managing a dockerized traefik hosting setup is immensely easier than managing multiple sites on a conventional web server like apache or nginx. It's routing tools allow me to set sites up and take them down with ease, and I like that the configuration can be defined in docker-compose. The automatic ssl feature is also incredibly nice once you figure it out. I also like the web dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
Traefik has a steep learning curve. If you are a newcomer to products like traefik, it will take some time to build an understanding of what it is, how it works, and what the different terms mean. I had to put in many hours to really understand what was going on with the automatic ssl certificate resolvers in particular. In particular, there are a few "magic settings" with automatic ssl that make it work, but I still don't understand exactly why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traefik allows me to host multiple web servers on a single host by routing requests to different web server docker containers based on domain name. This means that I can have multiple websites that use the default http/https ports on my host. The ability to use docker-compose to set up my sites also makes them incredibly easy to spin up, tear down, and manage. Finally, the SSL certificate resolvers are incredibly useful for making all my sites communicate over https by default.
Extensive proxy for all use cases!
What do you like best about the product?
Traefik is an exceptional choice for modern cloud-native environments, offering extensive configuration options that make it incredibly versatile and powerful. Whether you're deploying microservices, managing complex traffic routing, or securing your infrastructure, Traefik can handle it with ease. The level of customization available through its configuration is one of its standout features. You can fine-tune every aspect of your setup, from load balancing algorithms and request retries to SSL termination and advanced routing rules.
The comprehensive documentation provided by Traefik is another major advantage. It’s well-organized, detailed, and covers virtually every possible use case. Whether you’re just getting started or diving deep into complex scenarios, the documentation is a reliable resource. It walks you through configurations, best practices, and even troubleshooting, ensuring that you can make the most out of Traefik's extensive capabilities.
Moreover, Traefik is incredibly flexible and can be used in almost any environment or use case. It supports a wide range of orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker, and more. This versatility allows it to fit seamlessly into various infrastructures, from small-scale setups to large, complex systems. Whether you need to manage traffic for a single application or a sprawling microservices architecture, Traefik is equipped to meet the challenge.
Overall, Traefik’s extensive configuration options, robust documentation, and wide applicability make it an indispensable tool for anyone looking to efficiently manage their network traffic in a scalable and secure way.
The comprehensive documentation provided by Traefik is another major advantage. It’s well-organized, detailed, and covers virtually every possible use case. Whether you’re just getting started or diving deep into complex scenarios, the documentation is a reliable resource. It walks you through configurations, best practices, and even troubleshooting, ensuring that you can make the most out of Traefik's extensive capabilities.
Moreover, Traefik is incredibly flexible and can be used in almost any environment or use case. It supports a wide range of orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker, and more. This versatility allows it to fit seamlessly into various infrastructures, from small-scale setups to large, complex systems. Whether you need to manage traffic for a single application or a sprawling microservices architecture, Traefik is equipped to meet the challenge.
Overall, Traefik’s extensive configuration options, robust documentation, and wide applicability make it an indispensable tool for anyone looking to efficiently manage their network traffic in a scalable and secure way.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Traefik is highly versatile and powerful, its extensive configuration options can be overwhelming for first-time users. The sheer number of settings and possibilities might make it challenging to get started, especially if you're new to the concepts of reverse proxies, load balancing, or modern cloud-native architectures. Navigating through the various configuration methods—whether via YAML files, labels in Docker, or dynamic configurations—can be complex, requiring a solid understanding of the underlying principles.
However, once you get past the initial learning curve, the flexibility and control that Traefik offers are unmatched. The comprehensive documentation helps mitigate this complexity, guiding you through the setup process and helping you understand how to tailor Traefik to your specific needs. With time and experience, you'll likely find that the initial complexity is a small price to pay for the robust and customizable infrastructure that Traefik enables.
However, once you get past the initial learning curve, the flexibility and control that Traefik offers are unmatched. The comprehensive documentation helps mitigate this complexity, guiding you through the setup process and helping you understand how to tailor Traefik to your specific needs. With time and experience, you'll likely find that the initial complexity is a small price to pay for the robust and customizable infrastructure that Traefik enables.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traefik excels at solving the problem of managing multiple ingress routes, particularly when it comes to certificate management. In environments where multiple services require secure access, handling SSL certificates can quickly become a complex and time-consuming task. Traefik streamlines this process by automating certificate management, including the generation, renewal, and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates.
Offers a good dashboard that provides a great overview to users
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that ingress management is way easier in Traefik Enterprise, and there are many tools present within Traefik Enterprise's repositories, which allowed us to easily transition to it. The tool's dashboard is very helpful in handling any issues that we might face as we get a very good overview straight up from Traefik Enterprise's dashboard, which helps us debug or do anything during any sort of production issue.
What needs improvement?
I would say that maybe along the same path that Traefik Enterprise is currently on, you have most of the things straight up in the UI that you can check even with minimal training. You can just use, understand, and debug things from the UI. There is still work to be done in the tool, which can ensure that anyone with just minimal know-how of the product doesn't have to really go into the terminal and see the status of routes, concierge routes, or whether certain things are up or not. One should be able to just check things straight up from the UI and get to know what kind of issues are there in the solution, and even though such a feature is already there in the tool, there is more work to be done in it.
I would not particularly recommend any improvements when it comes to the security of traffic. I think the tool is pretty pluggable in terms of whatever security we want to put in our routes, even though it is just as a middleware or just as a supporting product for whatever we have in our services.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Traefik Enterprise for two and a half years. I am a user of the tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool handles scalability pretty easily. Adding more instances of services and all are pretty intuitive to do using Traefik Enterprise.
There is a dedicated DevOps team in my company that basically is the first line for anything to do with dashboards or the onboarding of a new service onto it. Everything is handled by dedicated teams in my company, but other than that, every team has some people who work on the infra side. I would say that more than 100 people use the tool in my office.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
My company has used Envoy in the past.
How was the initial setup?
When my company was moving from Envoy to Traefik Enterprise, the tool's initial setup phase was a little difficult to manage in the beginning. Earlier, we had Traefik Enterprise v1.0, and then, eventually, we moved to Traefik Enterprise v2.0. Now, there is Traefik v3 as well. When moving to Traefik Enterprise v2.0, I felt the transition itself was a little bit difficult, but it was relatively smooth once the entire activity was completed.
The solution is deployed using AWS cloud services.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
One of the reasons why my company moved from Envoy, as well as the other in-house options, to Traefik Enterprise was because doing many things in-house was overkill. Traefik Enterprise was a relatively cheaper option for my company. I would say that Traefik Enterprise is cheaper than the other alternatives in the market.
What other advice do I have?
The API gateway functionality in Traefik Enterprise has improved our operations. With Envoy, managing all the routing and monitoring was much more difficult. Moving to Traefik Enterprise has made things easier for the ops teams in my company.
I have not yet integrated Traefik Enterprise with any type of AI.
My recommendations to someone depending on their use case and requirements. What AWS provides is good enough for you, and if the costs are also good enough for you, then you can stick to it. In our company's use case, we found Traefik Enterprise to be the most suitable tool for our environment. Everything depends on the particular scale that you are looking at or the particular type of API gateway functionalities that you need for your services, as well as what middleware functionalities you might need or what you might have in-house for yourself.
When I say a beginner, the whole realm of handling API gateways and service middlewares, I would say it is not a very beginner-friendly domain itself, but assuming that someone who has recently ventured into such areas but is experienced in general, then it should be pretty intuitive for them to use Traefik Enterprise.
There is some scope for improvement in the way a lot of things can be managed straight up from the UI. For power users, the tool is very intuitive, so I would say it is a pretty good product.
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most flexible reverse proxy
What do you like best about the product?
Traefik is a very powerful reverse proxy solution I'm currently using to simplify the access to a hundred services in my homelab.
There's tons of functionality, making it a highly configurable reverse proxy, with built-in support for Let's Encrypt.
There are a number of different ways to configure Traefik, and I particularly like the Docker integration, which lets you configure Traefik with Docker labels, very useful when you want to quickly deploy a new service and integrate it into your architecture.
There's tons of functionality, making it a highly configurable reverse proxy, with built-in support for Let's Encrypt.
There are a number of different ways to configure Traefik, and I particularly like the Docker integration, which lets you configure Traefik with Docker labels, very useful when you want to quickly deploy a new service and integrate it into your architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
As Traefik is a highly flexible solution, it's also rather complex to understand at first. There's a bit of a learning curve, but you can get by with the help of documentation and resources available on the Internet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed to access my homelab easily using my domain name rather than IPs and ports, and Traefik fits the bill perfectly.
Traefik simplified our infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Traefik is its seamless integration with Docker, enabling automatic service discovery and dynamic configuration. This simplifies management and deployment in containerized environments, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Traefik is its complexity when configuring non-containerized services. The setup can require significant customization and troubleshooting, which diminishes its ease of use and efficiency outside of Docker environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traefik simplifies HTTPS access by automating SSL certificate management, ensuring secure connections to our services. Its dynamic service discovery and load balancing streamline deployment, enhancing security and scalability while reducing operational overhead.
Traefik Enterprise platform aids with Service Mesh Interface (SMI) for traffic policy on K8 clusters
What do you like best about the product?
Traefik Enterprise helps us route traffic to our applications, ensuring that our customer-sensitive data only runs in a secured environment. It keeps all malicious attacks from external traffic away from our data plane with its extensive security layer. All request calls & other transactions between cluster nodes are carried out through a splendid encrypted communication channel.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only one, the learning curve is steep. We have recently started to use the Traefik Enterprise platform to regulate our cluster traffic & keep our deployments highly available, auto-scalable and secured. With adequate time and exposure, we will be able to optimize traffic management & smooth operations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By typing a few command lines, we can deploy K8 clusters having several nodes using the Traefik Enterprise platform. It gives us exceptional visibility on our entry points, cluster inspection, error reports and service mesh status in its central Dashboard. All traffic policies & telemetries, such as service latency & error rates, are managed by its Service Mesh Interface (SMI). We can also include multiple Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) for our K8 clusters for better operability & convenience through the Traefik platform.
Fast and reliable reverse proxy/load balancer
What do you like best about the product?
Total integration with Kubernetes and automatic service discovery, HTTP2 automatically enabled the built-in integration with Let's Encrypt with automatic renew. Clean and detailed dashboard with monitor tool. These are just some of the many features Traefik offers for free.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation in the early versions was very poor. In the last version, it is better but not very detailed and with few examples. The cache is available only in the PRO version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Traefik in both Dev and Production environments, allowing us to prevent unattended bugs between the different environments.
Automatic reverse proxy configuration for containers
What do you like best about the product?
With traefik we can keep the routing config in version control since it is attached to the service labels on the service container. We can keep the container and proxy settings in the same place so the service and be deployed and updated faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
It needs some templating system to avoid repeating config lines that are the same in many of our services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily keep track of hundreds of proxy settings and keep them in sync with the associated containers. When a service reaches EOL and is removed, then traefik settings are removed too since they are attached to the service labels of the container.
Excellent for lightweight service discovery for docker data center and docker swarm
What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight micro-service service-discovery, support extensively for docker swarm, data center, Kubernetes.
1. Support Let's Encrypt automatic SSL certificate generation for all subdomains
2. Came along with load balancing. Also, we don't need to re-route traffic through Nginx as we do in Kubernetes if we open 80 and 443 ports
3. For all micro-services, add traefik configuration in the docker-compose file as service labels
4. Supports logging tools like jeager, prometheus, grafana
5. Cloud-native application proxy.
6. Less learning curve compared to Istio ingress
7. Excellent routing and traffic rules
1. Support Let's Encrypt automatic SSL certificate generation for all subdomains
2. Came along with load balancing. Also, we don't need to re-route traffic through Nginx as we do in Kubernetes if we open 80 and 443 ports
3. For all micro-services, add traefik configuration in the docker-compose file as service labels
4. Supports logging tools like jeager, prometheus, grafana
5. Cloud-native application proxy.
6. Less learning curve compared to Istio ingress
7. Excellent routing and traffic rules
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Does not support logging tools natively; needs to install and configure separately.
2. Performance is not better if service increases.
2. Performance is not better if service increases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have around five services running in docker swarm containers. Needed for lightweight service discovery, found out traefik, it solved our service meshes and enabled subdomain routing without Nginx.
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