Traefik Labs

Traefik Labs is a software company that specializes in developing cutting-edge technology for modern cloud environments. Their flagship product, Traefik, is a cloud-native edge router and load balancer that enables organizations to easily manage and secure their network traffic. Traefik Labs is dedicated to simplifying the complexities of networking in an increasingly digital world, making it easier for businesses to adapt and thrive in the dynamic landscape of modern technology. With a focus on innovation and user experience, Traefik Labs continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in network management and optimization.
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Features

Core Networking (Traefik Proxy)

  • Automatic service discovery
  • Graceful configuration reload (no restarts, no connection interruptions)
  • Dynamic configuration
  • Real-time configuration updates
  • WebSocket support
  • HTTP/2 support
  • HTTP/3 support
  • TCP proxy
  • UDP proxy
  • gRPC support
  • Let’s Encrypt automatic TLS certificates
  • Canary deployments
  • Real-time logs
  • Access logs
  • Metrics
  • Distributed tracing

Routing & Traffic Management

  • Entrypoints (network entry points with port and protocol definition)
  • Routers (connect requests to services)
  • Middleware support (modify requests before forwarding)
  • Services configuration
  • Provider integrations (orchestrators, container engines, cloud providers, key-value stores)
  • Traffic splitting
  • Load balancing

Deployment & Operations

  • Hybrid cloud compatible
  • Multi-cloud compatible
  • On-premises compatible
  • Bare metal support
  • Kubernetes support
  • Docker Swarm support
  • AWS integration
  • Per-cluster dashboard
  • GitOps-native declarative configuration
  • Static configuration auto reload (Enterprise)

Plugin Ecosystem

  • Plugin support (Go-based)
  • Plugin support (WASM-based)
  • Public plugin support
  • Private plugin support (Enterprise)

Authentication & Authorization (Hub/Enterprise)

  • JWT authentication
  • OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection authentication
  • OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials authentication
  • OAuth 2.1 support
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication
  • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication
  • API Key authentication
  • HMAC authentication (Enterprise)

Security & Policy (Hub/Enterprise)

  • Open Policy Agent (OPA) support
  • Native Coraza Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • HashiCorp Vault integration
  • Vault PKI support
  • Vault K/V (TLS certificate store)
  • Vault AppRole authentication
  • Encrypted cluster communication

Distributed Features (Hub/Enterprise)

  • Distributed Let’s Encrypt
  • Distributed rate limiting
  • Distributed in-flight request limiting
  • HTTP caching
  • Multi-cluster ACME

Compliance (Hub/Enterprise)

  • FIPS 140-2 compliance (Linux & Windows)

AI Gateway Capabilities (Hub)

  • Unified Multi-LLM API access
  • Centralized AI credential management
  • AI provider flexibility (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, etc.)
  • Semantic caching for AI responses
  • Content Guard & PII protection
  • AI-specific observability
  • OpenTelemetry integration for AI
  • Support for local/self-hosted LLMs (Ollama, Mistral, etc.)
  • Local inferencing support

MCP Gateway Capabilities (Hub)

  • Task-Based Access Control (TBAC) for AI agents
  • MCP Servers governance
  • Session-smart load balancing for agent workflows
  • OAuth 2.1/2.0 Resource Server for MCP
  • Fine-grained policy enforcement for AI tools
  • Audit-ready observability for agent interactions

API Management (Hub API Management)

  • Flexible API grouping and versioning
  • API Developer Portal
  • Customizable API Developer Portal with white label support
  • OpenAPI Specifications (OAS) 2.0 & 3.0 support
  • Multi-cluster dashboard
  • Built-in identity provider (or bring your own)
  • Configuration linter
  • Change impact analysis
  • Pre-built Grafana dashboards
  • Event correlation for quick incident mitigation
  • Traffic debugger
  • Portal RBAC (role-based access control)
  • API discovery
  • API documentation
  • API testing
  • API access control
  • Error analytics
  • Usage analytics

Service Mesh (Enterprise)

  • Integrated service mesh
  • Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification support
  • Traffic access control
  • Traffic splitting
  • Circuit breaker pattern support
  • Inter-process communication management

High Availability & Scalability (Enterprise)

  • Native high availability
  • Raft consensus algorithm
  • Internal distributed store
  • Horizontal scaling
  • Auto-scaling support
  • Fault tolerant design
  • No external key-value store required

Observability

  • Real-time metrics
  • Distributed tracing
  • OpenTelemetry support
  • Cluster-wide dashboard
  • Ingress monitoring
  • Service mesh monitoring
  • Error reporting

Management Tools

  • teectl CLI tool (Enterprise)
  • Remote CLI (Enterprise)
  • Central control plane
  • Single management point for APIs, users, and infrastructure

Support

  • Community support (Proxy)
  • Built-in commercial support (Hub/Enterprise)
  • 24/7/365 support options

Use Cases

Reverse Proxy & Ingress Controller

  • Kubernetes ingress controller
  • Docker Swarm ingress
  • Cloud-native application routing
  • Edge proxy for web applications
  • TLS/SSL termination
  • Traffic routing to containerized services

API Gateway

  • Centralized API entry point
  • API routing and aggregation
  • API authentication and authorization
  • API rate limiting
  • API traffic management
  • Request/response transformation

Microservices Architecture

  • Service-to-service routing
  • Automatic service discovery
  • Dynamic configuration updates
  • Load balancing across services
  • Canary deployments
  • Traffic splitting for A/B testing
  • Blue-green deployments

Kubernetes Environments

  • Kubernetes-native API management
  • GitOps-native declarative configuration
  • Multi-cluster management
  • Cross-cluster API governance
  • Ingress controller replacement
  • Service mesh integration

AI Gateway

  • Unified Multi-LLM API access
  • Route traffic to AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock)
  • Local/self-hosted LLM support (Ollama, Mistral)
  • Centralized AI credential management
  • Semantic caching for AI responses
  • AI cost optimization
  • PII protection and content filtering
  • AI-specific observability

MCP Gateway (AI Agents)

  • Secure access to Model Context Protocol servers
  • AI agent governance
  • Task-Based Access Control (TBAC) for AI agents
  • Session-smart routing for agent workflows
  • Fine-grained policy enforcement for AI tools
  • Audit-ready observability for agent interactions
  • OAuth 2.1/2.0 compliant MCP server protection

Service Mesh

  • Inter-service communication management
  • Traffic access control
  • Traffic splitting
  • Circuit breaker pattern implementation
  • Encrypted cluster communication
  • SMI (Service Mesh Interface) compliance

Security Gateway

  • JWT authentication
  • OAuth 2.0/2.1 token introspection
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication
  • LDAP authentication
  • API key authentication
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Coraza
  • Open Policy Agent (OPA) integration
  • mTLS enforcement

Enterprise Security

  • FIPS 140-2 compliance
  • HashiCorp Vault integration
  • Distributed security enforcement
  • Role-based access control
  • Centralized authentication

Traffic Management

  • Distributed rate limiting
  • Request throttling
  • HTTP caching
  • Load balancing
  • Automatic retries
  • Circuit breaking
  • Failover handling

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Deployments

  • Hybrid cloud routing
  • Multi-cloud API management
  • On-premises deployment
  • Bare metal support
  • Consistent configuration

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