Traefik

RATING:

4.6

(7)
Overview

About Traefik

Traefik Labs helps businesses say goodbye to connectivity chaos by simplifying and accelerating the API and microservices lifecycles. With Traefik's unmatched approach to cloud native, businesses can reimagine their application connectivity and API management. Explore Traefik Hub, the industry's first Kubernetes-native API management solution as well as Traefik Enterprise, the API gateway cloud natives trust for any orchestrator or environment.

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Traefik Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Traefik

7 Reviews

User Profile

Gianluigi

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2022

Fast and reliable reverse proxy/load balancer

We use Traefik in both Dev and Production environments, allowing us to prevent unattended bugs between the different environments.

PROS

Total integration with Kubernetes and automatic service discovery, HTTP2 automatically enabled, 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.

CONS

Documentation in the early versions was very poor. In the last version it is better but not very detailed and with few examples. Cache is available only in PRO version.

Reason for choosing Traefik

Nginx Plus offers many features, like caching, but we want to use free version and Traefik is very complete in the free version and really simple to integrate in our K8S stack.

Andrew

Real Estate, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Very happy as OSS version user

We used traefik for hosting multiple web sites on a single VPS with docker and docker compose and as ingress controller for kubernetes. We used Let's Encrypt option, and SSL termination feature. For Ingress Controller we found traefik better supported and more stable than more wide-spread nginx-based ingress controller.

PROS

As reverse proxies go this is the most flexible one that I've seen. It has so many knobs to turn, that you can make it work almost in any scenario you can imagine. More than 10 configuration providers allow for a wide plethora of usage scenarios, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller implementation makes managing your cluster ingresses a breeze.

CONS

Configuring Traefik requires some experience, but once you mastered it the possibilities are endless

Reason for choosing Traefik

It was free (OSS), in very active development with a good community support and it proved very stable.

Ian

Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed January 2023

Useful API and dashboard

The software is great, a little confusing at first but it is useful in configuration and debugging purposes.

PROS

Traefik has an API and dashboard that can be useful for configuring and debugging purposes.

CONS

It can be confusing to understand why the middleware or service is not catching certain routes, and it would be helpful if there were more information included in the debugging output or if there were a comprehensive guide for troubleshooting issues with Traefik.

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José

Verified reviewer

Computer Games, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Ease of use reverse proxy!

We are using Traefik as a reverse proxy to our backend.

PROS

- Easy docker configuration with labels- Easy SSL integration with letsencrypt- Easy load balancer configuration- Nice dashboard

CONS

For our needs we dind't miss any feature!

Reasons for switching to Traefik

Easy to configure with docker.

Isak

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

A powerful and easy-to-use reverse proxy and load balancer

Traefik is a powerful and easy-to-use reverse proxy and load balancer that is well-suited for use in a variety of applications and environments. While it does have some limitations, such as limited documentation and the lack of built-in SSL support, these are minor issues that can be easily overcome with a little bit of effort. If you are looking for a reliable and scalable solution for routing and balancing traffic to your applications, Traefik is definitely worth considering.

PROS

Traefik is relatively easy to set up and configure, especially if you are already familiar with reverse proxies and load balancers. It has a simple and intuitive configuration file format. It is optimized for containerized environments, making it a good choice for use with Docker and Kubernetes.

CONS

The documentation can be somewhat limited in scope, especially for advanced features and configurations. While Traefik does support secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) protocols, it does not include any built-in tools for generating or managing SSL certificates.

Fredrik

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

Traefik

I have been using Traefik for several years.

PROS

Overall good documentation and the product is easy to set up and reliable. The community is very helpful.

CONS

The documentation on using Traefik on Kubernetes could be better.

Reason for choosing Traefik

Ease of use, and community.

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2022

Traefik makes deploying your docker apps super easy

PROS

Traefik supports both local installation and docker installation, with the docker installation, you can easily route requests to containers.

CONS

Documentation can be made more verbose.

7 Reviews