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Home/Categories/DevOps & CI/CD/Traefik
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Traefik

Open source alternative to NGINX Plus, Kong Enterprise and AWS API Gateway

Traefik is an open source reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers Docker and Kubernetes service routing from container labels and annotations. MIT licensed; self-host with Docker.

63.2K starsGoMITActive this week
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Contents
  1. 01What Traefik does

Repository

Stars
63.2K
Forks
6K
License
MIT
Latest
v3.7.1
Last commit
5 days ago
Last verified
May 17, 2026
Repo
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  • 02Tech stack
  • 03Similar open-source tools
    • TL;DR

    Traefik is an open source reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers Docker and Kubernetes service routing from container labels and annotations. MIT licensed; self-host with Docker.MIT · Go · 63.2K stars · Active this week

    what it does

    What Traefik does#

    Traefik is an open source reverse proxy that auto-discovers service routing configuration from Docker labels, Kubernetes ingress rules, and other orchestration metadata, so teams stop maintaining Nginx config files by hand for every new service they deploy.

    tech stack · detected from GitHub

    What it's built on#

    Languages
    GoTypeScript
    Frameworks
    React
    Infrastructure
    DockerKubernetes
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    Categories

    DevOps & CI/CDAPIs & IntegrationWeb Development

    Tags

    API InfrastructureKubernetesDocker ManagementSelf HostedDevOps ToolsMonitoringOpen Core