Traefik Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extremely versatile and powerful application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be overwhelming, especially for someone new to proxies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My customers and I love the simplicity. The dynamic service discovery makes the implementation easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike it is not default for all Kubernetes distributions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I started using traefik it`s initial work in the wrong way as I expected, but it`s was 1st expirience. AND IT WORK !!!! Late I got mo experience, and it started working even better than I could imagine. The only problem was when I had to migrate from 1.7 to v2. Of course, Trafik prepares migration solutions, etc., and it`s been a hard time. What about current: It's AWESOME! USE IT! IT'S the BEST SOLUTION TODAY !!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Litle complicated documentation. Will be nice to have complete examples Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best part about traefik is its easy to use documentation. For the most of things to discover from, docs were really helpful. Most of the time, to use traefik its configuration is defined in different formats like YAML, toml etc. Also, as of today I am using traefik as an ingress controller and it is performing well for my production builds also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dislike not so directly, but yes, initially it was difficult to shift from version 1.6 to 2. As that it was a big change in how traefik performs. Also, if traefik can give functionality to password protect traefik admin ports 8080 and 80. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It needs some templating system to avoid repeating config lines that are the same in many of our services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Does not support logging tools natively; needs to install and configure separately.

2. Performance is not better if service increases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've had the joy of setting up traefik as reverse proxy for prometheus and grafana. It's a great piece of software, written in Golang and open source. Let me explain what it makes so unique compared to Nginx/Apache/Haproxy. traefik provides different way for configuration. You can feed it with YAML, JSON or TOML. There is no custom format, like in Nginx. If you ever wrote a custom Ansible module for Nginx you know what I mean... with Traefik you can just pipe the YAML 1 to 1 to the traefik configuration. For configuration purposes Traefik provides an API and a nice dashboard, which helps for debugging. Traefik also provides natively prometheus metrics (something that nginx or apache do not) and I think that the router/middleware/service concept is pretty unique. Right now I am testing it in Kubernetes Environment and I am convinced so far, that I am going to use it as Ingress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While working on my reverse proxy setup for prometheus and grafana with traefik I had some difficulties with error debugging and the correct config file format. The configuration can be either in YAML, TOML or JSON and provides different elements like routers, middlewares and services. This concept is new for somebody who comes from the Nginx/Apache world and it might be difficult to fully understand it. During my setup I encountered a few situations, where I had the feeling that the debugging/logging output is not mature enough. I would like to have more verbose debugging. I am used to nginx, nginx can specify the exact error why something is not working. With traefik, however, this is far more difficult. Sometimes it's not clear why the middleware or why the service is not catching up the specific router. I wish there would be an explanation for the debugging output and maybe an in-depth guide for debugging and traefik troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Traefik is very fast, understandable and tunable reverse-proxy and load-balancer. SSL with Let's Encrypt (auto-renew, one description for every entry points, security headers to have a hardened configuration) is a strong and good feature.

- Support is pro-active and development is fluent.

- Active community and helpful CM all over the world

- Nice and dynamic web UI

- Don't have to setup a strong architecture - Traefik just need to be in front of the web and that's it

- Auto discover is a fantastic functionality and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Traefik deserves to be rigorous (yaml formatting). There are no real problem, you just have to be careful read the docs and be helped by the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.