Traefik Labs is the company behind Traefik Proxy, a modern reverse proxy and load balancer designed specifically for microservices and container environments. Written in Go, Traefik automatically discovers services and configures itself in real time as containers come and go — no manual configuration files needed.
Traefik integrates natively with Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, and other orchestration platforms. It handles SSL termination via Let’s Encrypt auto-renewal, supports middleware for authentication, rate limiting, and circuit breaking, and provides a built-in dashboard for monitoring. The open-source project has over 45,000 GitHub stars and billions of downloads.
The company’s commercial product, Traefik Enterprise (now Traefik Hub), adds features like a distributed API gateway, access control, and multi-cluster management. Traefik Hub positions itself as a GitOps-friendly API management solution built on top of the Traefik proxy.
Founded in 2016 in Lyon, France, Traefik Labs has raised funding from Balderton Capital and Elaia Partners. The Traefik ecosystem has become the go-to ingress solution for many Kubernetes deployments, second only to NGINX in terms of adoption among cloud-native proxies.
