Containous, the leading
cloud-native networking company, today announced the general availability of
Traefik 2.0. The major release of the open-source
cloud-native edge router comes as Traefik recently crossed 1 billion software
downloads from Docker Hub. This 2.0 release builds upon the wildly successful
initial version of Traefik and is Containous' most significant release to date.
This new release gives software development teams even more control and
networking capabilities for their applications.
With containerized microservices environments becoming more and more complex to
manage, enterprises increasingly need better management and visibility within
their production applications. Traefik 2.0 combines advanced routing
configurations with a better developer experience, and includes TCP routing
support for managing broader application protocols. Based on the same
straightforward design principles of Traefik, the 2.0 release delivers
engineering teams an all-in-one platform to manage and monitor traffic.
This release includes a number of new features across three key areas:
- TCP routing support (and
SNI routing) -- Traefik 2.0 supports both HTTP requests and TCP
requests. Developers can now not only route classic API calls, but also
route requests to a broader application support, such as databases or any
TCP-based applications.
- Advanced routing
capabilities -- This version enables Canary Deployments and A/B
testing with service load balancers, and gives developers the ability to
fully customize their routes with middleware. Traefik 2.0 also allows
mirroring services, a way to fork the incoming request and send it to
different services at the same time, as well as fine-grained configuration
for TLS termination to define TLS termination parameters per route.
- Better developer
experience -- Traefik 2.0 gives developers a brand new API that
provides detailed status and traffic information about what's happening in
the cluster. The version also comes with a clear configuration with CRD in
Kubernetes for better readability and control over configuration, a
Go-Like syntax for router rules, more configuration consistency with
Labels, and YAML support. A new WebUI enables developers to see what is
happening on their cluster at a glance, and a refactored documentation
includes all possible configuration examples.
"Our mission with Traefik 2.0 is to support our
users through their entire networking journey, from connecting any of their
applications, to controlling access, to monitoring traffic," said Emile Vauge,
founder and CEO of Containous. "We have a vision of building a single, complete
solution that simplifies the networking complexity associated with designing,
deploying, and managing applications. Traefik 2.0 is a major milestone and
significant step, and surpassing 1 billion downloads is a great testament to
Traefik's ability to help customers on that journey."
The recently announced Maesh, Containous' service mesh, has been built on top
of version 2 of Traefik. Together, Traefik and Maesh bring an integrated and
full-featured networking solution for cloud-native infrastructures.
Availability
Download Traefik 2.0 on Docker Hub.