Traefik is one of the most widely deployed open-source reverse proxies and API gateways, known for automatic service discovery in Docker and Kubernetes environments and configuration through labels rather than files. Middlewares provide rate limiting, authentication forwarding, and traffic shaping, with Traefik Enterprise and Hub adding commercial API-management features. The core proxy is entirely free. It suits container-native teams that want gateway capability that configures itself from the orchestrator.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
API gateway
- Free tier
- Yes: Core proxy fully free OSS; Enterprise/Hub are commercial.
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Rate limiting
- Yes
- Auth management
- Yes
- Developer portal
- No