[](https://semaphoreci.com/containous/traefik)
[](https://traefik.herokuapp.com)
Imagine that you have deployed a bunch of microservices with the help of an orchestrator (like Swarm or Kubernetes) or a service registry (like etcd or consul).
Now you want users to access these microservices, and you need a reverse proxy.
Traditional reverse-proxies require that you configure _each_ route that will connect paths and subdomains to _each_ microservice.
In an environment where you add, remove, kill, upgrade, or scale your services _many_ times a day, the task of keeping the routes up to date becomes tedious.
Træfik listens to your service registry/orchestrator API and instantly generates the routes so your microservices are connected to the outside world -- without further intervention from your part.
- [Fast](https://docs.traefik.io/benchmarks) ... which is nice
- Exposes a Rest API
- Packaged as a single binary file (made with :heart: with go) and available as a [tiny](https://microbadger.com/images/traefik) [official](https://hub.docker.com/r/_/traefik/) docker image
To get your hands on Træfik, you can use the [5-Minute Quickstart](http://docs.traefik.io/#the-trfik-quickstart-using-docker) in our documentation (you will need Docker).
Alternatively, if you don't want to install anything on your computer, you can try Træfik online in this great [Katacoda tutorial](https://www.katacoda.com/courses/traefik/deploy-load-balancer) that shows how to load balance requests between multiple Docker containers.
If you are looking for a more comprehensive and real use-case example, you can also check [Play-With-Docker](http://training.play-with-docker.com/traefik-load-balancing/) to see how to load balance between multiple nodes.
You can find the complete documentation at [https://docs.traefik.io](https://docs.traefik.io).
A collection of contributions around Træfik can be found at [https://awesome.traefik.io](https://awesome.traefik.io).
## Support
To get community support, you can:
- join the Træfik community Slack channel: [](https://traefik.herokuapp.com)
- use [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/traefik) (using the `traefik` tag)
If you need commercial support, please contact [Containo.us](https://containo.us) by mail: <mailto:support@containo.us>.
- Grab the latest binary from the [releases](https://github.com/containous/traefik/releases) page and run it with the [sample configuration file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containous/traefik/master/traefik.sample.toml):
- Or use the official tiny Docker image and run it with the [sample configuration file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containous/traefik/master/traefik.sample.toml):
