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title: "Traefik Proxy Documentation"
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description: "Traefik Proxy, an open source Edge Router, auto-discovers configurations and supports major orchestrators, like Kubernetes. Read the technical documentation."
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# Welcome
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Traefik is an [open-source](https://github.com/traefik/traefik) *Application Proxy* that makes publishing your services a fun and easy experience.
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It receives requests on behalf of your system and identifies which components are responsible for handling them, and routes them securely.
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What sets Traefik apart, besides its many features, is that it automatically discovers the right configuration for your services.
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The magic happens when Traefik inspects your infrastructure, where it finds relevant information and discovers which service serves which request.
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Traefik is natively compliant with every major cluster technology, such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS, Mesos, Marathon, and [the list goes on](providers/overview.md); and can handle many at the same time. (It even works for legacy software running on bare metal.)
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With Traefik, there is no need to maintain and synchronize a separate configuration file: everything happens automatically, in real time (no restarts, no connection interruptions).
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With Traefik, you spend time developing and deploying new features to your system, not on configuring and maintaining its working state.
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And if your needs change, you can add API gateway and API management capabilities seamlessly to your existing Traefik deployments. It takes less than a minute, there’s no rip-and-replace, and all your configurations are preserved. See how it works in this video:
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zriUO5YPgFg?modestbranding=1&rel=0&controls=1" width="560" height="315" title="Upgrade Traefik Proxy to API Gateway and API Management in Seconds // Traefik Labs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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</div>
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Developing Traefik, our main goal is to make it effortless to use, and we're sure you'll enjoy it.
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-- The Traefik Maintainer Team
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!!! info
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Join our user friendly and active [Community Forum](https://community.traefik.io "Link to Traefik Community Forum") to discuss, learn, and connect with the Traefik community.
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Using Traefik OSS in Production? Consider our enterprise-grade [API Gateway](https://traefik.io/traefik-hub-api-gateway/), [API Management](https://traefik.io/traefik-hub/), and [Commercial Support](https://info.traefik.io/request-commercial-support) solutions.
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