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title: "Traefik Concepts Documentation"
description: "Get started with Traefik Proxy. Read the technical documentation for an introduction into the key concepts behind our open source edge router."
title: Concepts
description: Traefik - base concepts and main features
---
# Concepts
Everything You Need to Know
{: .subtitle }
This page explains the base concepts of Traefik.
---
## Introduction
Traefik is based on the concept of EntryPoints, Routers, Middelwares and Services.
The main features include dynamic configuration, automatic service discovery, and support for multiple backends and protocols.
1. [EntryPoints](../routing/entrypoints.md "Link to docs about EntryPoints"): EntryPoints are the network entry points into Traefik. They define the port which will receive the packets, and whether to listen for TCP or UDP.
2. [Routers](../routing/routers/index.md "Link to docs about routers"): A router is in charge of connecting incoming requests to the services that can handle them.
3. [Middlewares](../middlewares/overview.md "Link to docs about middlewares"): Attached to the routers, middlewares can modify the requests or responses before they are sent to your service
4. [Services](../routing/services/index.md "Link to docs about services"): Services are responsible for configuring how to reach the actual services that will eventually handle the incoming requests.
## Edge Router
Traefik is an _Edge Router_, it means that it's the door to your platform, and that it intercepts and routes every incoming request:
it knows all the logic and every rule that determine which services handle which requests (based on the [path](../routing/routers/index.md#rule), the [host](../routing/routers/index.md#rule), [headers](../routing/routers/index.md#rule), [and so on](../routing/routers/index.md#rule) ...).
Traefik is an *Edge Router*, it means that it's the door to your platform, and that it intercepts and routes every incoming request:
it knows all the logic and every [rule](../routing/routers/index.md#rule "Link to docs about routing rules") that determine which services handle which requests (based on the *path*, the *host*, *headers*, etc.).
![The Door to Your Infrastructure](../assets/img/traefik-concepts-1.png)
![The Door to Your Infrastructure](../assets/img/traefik-concepts-1.png "Picture explaining the infrastructure")
## Auto Service Discovery
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Deploying your services, you attach information that tells Traefik the characteristics of the requests the services can handle.
![Decentralized Configuration](../assets/img/traefik-concepts-2.png)
![Decentralized Configuration](../assets/img/traefik-concepts-2.png "Picture about Decentralized Configuration")
It means that when a service is deployed, Traefik detects it immediately and updates the routing rules in real time.
Similarly, when a service is removed from the infrastructure, the corresponding route is deleted accordingly.
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!!! info "Many different rules"
In the example above, we used the request [path](../routing/routers/index.md#rule) to determine which service was in charge, but of course you can use many other different [rules](../routing/routers/index.md#rule).
In the example above, we used the request [path rule](../routing/routers/index.md#rule "Link to docs about routing rules") to determine which service was in charge.
Certainly, you can use many other different [rules](../routing/routers/index.md#rule "Link to docs about routing rules").
!!! info "Updating the requests"
In the [middleware](../middlewares/overview.md) section, you can learn about how to update the requests before forwarding them to the services.
In the [middleware](../middlewares/overview.md "Link to middleware documentation") section, you can learn about how to update the requests before forwarding them to the services.
!!! question "How does Traefik discover the services?"
Traefik is able to use your cluster API to discover the services and read the attached information. In Traefik, these connectors are called [providers](../providers/overview.md) because they _provide_ the configuration to Traefik. To learn more about them, read the [provider overview](../providers/overview.md) section.
Traefik is able to use your cluster API to discover the services and read the attached information.
In Traefik, these connectors are called [providers](../providers/overview.md "Link to overview about Traefik providers") because they *provide* the configuration to Traefik.
{!traefik-for-business-applications.md!}