Traefik

Unified control plane for governing APIs, models, and agent traffic.

Traefik is a unified control plane for governing APIs, models, and agent traffic across VMs, containers, and Kubernetes environments. It addresses fragmentation by combining an open source reverse proxy and load balancer with commercial API gateway and API management products, delivered as a single binary with declarative configuration.

The platform includes Traefik Proxy, Traefik Hub API Gateway, and Traefik Hub API Management, with add-ons for AI Gateway, MCP Gateway, and a Web Application Firewall. Capabilities include dynamic L4/L7 routing, canary and blue/green deployments, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and OPA-compatible authorization, OpenTelemetry-based observability, API catalog and developer portal, OpenAPI schema validation, multi-cluster federation, AI token rate limiting and content guardrails, and MCP server registry with per-tool authorization. It supports Kubernetes Gateway API and Ingress, Ingress NGINX migration, and runs across Docker Swarm, Nomad, Azure Service Fabric, Kubernetes distributions, virtual machines, and bare metal.

Traefik is aimed at platform and infrastructure teams managing mixed VM, container, and AI workloads. Traefik Proxy is available as a free open source download with optional support purchase; Traefik Hub API Gateway and API Management are commercial editions with pricing available on request, and AI Gateway, MCP Gateway, and the request-response debugger are add-ons.

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