Traefik
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysCloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer
Replaces HAProxy, AWS ELB
3 self-hosted projects maintained by traefik on GitHub — combined community: 68,727 GitHub stars.
The 3 projects span 2 categories: reverse proxy & gateways and developer tools & git. Traefik is the flagship at 65,200 stars — Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer. 3 of 3 are written primarily in Go, so one toolchain covers the whole portfolio. The oldest dates from 2015 and the newest from 2023. 2 publish a Docker deployment path, and 1 have a verified ≈5-minute setup.
| Projects | 3 |
|---|---|
| Combined stars | 68,727 |
| Hosted on | GitHub |
| Languages | Go (3) |
| Licenses | MIT (1), Apache-2.0 (1), free (1) |
| Setup difficulty | Easy (1), Medium (2) |
| Min. RAM range | 128–512 MB |
| First releases | 2015–2023 |
Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer
Replaces HAProxy, AWS ELB
Lightweight service mesh built on Traefik
Replaces Istio, Linkerd
Tiny Go server that prints os information and HTTP request to output