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.

• 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
• Circuit breakers on backends
• Round Robin, rebalancer load-balancers
• Rest Metrics
• Tiny docker image included
• SSL backends support
• SSL frontend support
• WebUI

Here is a demo of Træfɪk using Docker backend, showing a load-balancing between two servers, hot reloading of configuration, and graceful shutdown.

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

• The simple way: grab the latest binary from the releases page 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

• From sources:

git clone https://github.com/EmileVauge/traefik

You can find the complete documentation here.

Refer to the benchmarks section in the documentation.

You need either Docker and make, or go and godep in order to build traefik.

You need to run the binary target. This will create binaries for linux and darwin platforms in the dist folder.

$ make binary
docker build -t "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" -f build.Dockerfile .
# […]
docker run --rm -it -e OS_ARCH_ARG -e OS_PLATFORM_ARG -e TESTFLAGS -v "/home/vincent/src/github/vdemeester/traefik/dist:/go/src/github.com/emilevauge/traefik/dist" "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" ./script/make.sh generate binary
---> Making bundle: generate (in .)
removed 'gen.go'

---> Making bundle: binary (in .)
Number of parallel builds: 8

-->       linux/arm: github.com/emilevauge/traefik
-->    darwin/amd64: github.com/emilevauge/traefik
-->      darwin/386: github.com/emilevauge/traefik
-->       linux/386: github.com/emilevauge/traefik
-->     linux/amd64: github.com/emilevauge/traefik

$ ls dist/
traefik*  traefik_darwin-386*  traefik_darwin-amd64*  traefik_linux-386*  traefik_linux-amd64*  traefik_linux-arm*

The idea behind godep is the following :

• when checkout(ing) a project, run godep restore to install (go get …) the dependencies in the GOPATH.
• if you need another dependency, go get it, import and use it in the source, and **run godep save ./... to save it in Godeps/Godeps.json and vendoring it in Godeps/_workspace/src.

$ godep restore
# Generate
$ godep go generate
# Simple go build
$ godep go build
# Using gox to build multiple platform
$ GOPATH=`godep path`:$GOPATH gox "linux darwin" "386 amd64 arm" \
    -output="dist/traefik_{{.OS}}-{{.Arch}}"
# run other commands like tests
$ godep go test ./...
ok      _/home/vincent/src/github/vdemeester/traefik    0.004s

You can run unit tests using the test-unit target and the integration test using the test-integration target.

$ make test-unit
docker build -t "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" -f build.Dockerfile .
# […]
docker run --rm -it -e OS_ARCH_ARG -e OS_PLATFORM_ARG -e TESTFLAGS -v "/home/vincent/src/github/vdemeester/traefik/dist:/go/src/github.com/emilevauge/traefik/dist" "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" ./script/make.sh generate test-unit
---> Making bundle: generate (in .)
removed 'gen.go'

---> Making bundle: test-unit (in .)
+ go test -cover -coverprofile=cover.out .
ok      github.com/emilevauge/traefik   0.005s  coverage: 4.1% of statements

Test success