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[Traefik](https://traefik.io) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components ([Docker](https://www.docker.com/), [Swarm mode](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/), [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io), [Marathon](https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/), [Consul](https://www.consul.io/), [Etcd](https://coreos.com/etcd/), [Rancher](https://rancher.com), [Amazon ECS](https://aws.amazon.com/ecs), ...) and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

Pointing Traefik at your orchestrator should be the *only* configuration step you need.

# Traefik v2 - Example usage

Enable `docker` provider and web UI:

```yml
## traefik.yml

# Docker configuration backend
providers:
  docker:
    defaultRule: "Host(`{{ trimPrefix `/` .Name }}.docker.localhost`)"

# API and dashboard configuration
api:
  insecure: true
```

Start Traefik:

```bash
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 \
-v $PWD/traefik.yml:/etc/traefik/traefik.yml \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
traefik:v2.0
```

Start a backend server, named `test`:

```bash
docker run -d --name test containous/whoami
```

And finally, you can access to your `whoami` server throught Traefik, on the domain name `test.docker.localhost`:

```console
# $ curl --header 'Host:test.docker.localhost' 'http://localhost:80/'
$ curl test.docker.localhost
Hostname: 390a880bdfab
IP: 127.0.0.1
IP: 172.17.0.3
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: test.docker.localhost
User-Agent: curl/7.65.3
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
X-Forwarded-For: 172.17.0.1
X-Forwarded-Host: test.docker.localhost
X-Forwarded-Port: 80
X-Forwarded-Proto: http
X-Forwarded-Server: 7e073cb54211
X-Real-Ip: 172.17.0.1
```

The web UI [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080) will give you an overview of the routers, services, and middlewares.

![Web UI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containous/traefik/v2.0/docs/content/assets/img/webui-dashboard.png)

# Traefik v1 - Example usage

Grab a [sample configuration file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containous/traefik/v1.7/traefik.sample.toml) and rename it to `traefik.toml`. Enable `docker` provider and web UI:

```toml
## traefik.toml

# API and dashboard configuration
[api]

# Docker configuration backend
[docker]
  domain = "docker.localhost"
```

Start Traefik:

```bash
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 \
-v $PWD/traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
traefik:v1.7
```

Start a backend server, named `test`:

```bash
docker run -d --name test containous/whoami
```

And finally, you can access to your `whoami` server throught Traefik, on the domain name `{containerName}.{configuredDomain}` (`test.docker.localhost`):

```console
# $ curl --header 'Host:test.docker.localhost' 'http://localhost:80/'
$ curl 'http://test.docker.localhost'
Hostname: 117c5530934d
IP: 127.0.0.1
IP: ::1
IP: 172.17.0.3
IP: fe80::42:acff:fe11:3
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: test.docker.localhost
User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
X-Forwarded-For: 172.17.0.1
X-Forwarded-Host: 172.17.0.3:80
X-Forwarded-Proto: http
X-Forwarded-Server: f2e05c433120
```

The web UI [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080) will give you an overview of the frontends/backends and also a health dashboard.

![Web UI Providers](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containous/traefik/v1.7/docs/img/web.frontend.png)

# Documentation

You can find the complete documentation:

-	for [v1.7](https://docs.traefik.io/v1.7)
-	for [v2.0](https://docs.traefik.io/v2.0)

A community support is available at [https://community.containo.us](https://community.containo.us)

A collection of contributions around Traefik can be found at [https://awesome.traefik.io](https://awesome.traefik.io).