Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically (hot-reload).

Features

• No dependency hell, single binary made with go
• Simple json Rest API
• Simple TOML file configuration
• Multiple backends supported: Docker, Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, and more to come
• Watchers for backends, can listen change in backends to apply a new configuration automatically
• Hot-reloading of configuration. No need to restart the process
• Graceful shutdown http connections during hot-reloads
• Rest Metrics
• Tiny docker image included
• SSL backends support
• SSL frontend support

Plumbing

• Oxy: an awsome proxy library made by Mailgun guys
• Gorilla mux: famous request router
• Negroni: web middlewares made simple
• Graceful: graceful shutdown of http.Handler servers

Quick start

• The simple way: grab the latest binary from and just run it with the sample configuration file:

./traefik traefik.toml

• Use the tiny Docker image:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 -v $PWD/traefik.toml:/traefik.toml emilevauge/traefik

Configuration