Traefik tutorial - dynamic routing for microservices

Traefik is an awesome reverse proxy (and load balancer) with lots of backend supports. So why do we need another reverse proxy? (we already have nginx and haproxy that are stable and performant). Don’t get me wrong, nginx and haproxy are awesome, but the problem with them is how to manage configuration. In a microservice world configuration are not stable, services come and go and configuration need to be updated to route traffic something that haproxy and nginx are not designed for. Enter traefik. ...

September 17, 2018 · 3 min · 550 words · Roger Welin