traefik
The Cloud Native Application Proxy (by traefik)
Caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS (by caddyserver)
traefik | Caddy | |
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200 | 439 | |
55,406 | 65,280 | |
0.8% | 1.1% | |
9.6 | 9.4 | |
5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
traefik
Posts with mentions or reviews of traefik.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-08.
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Save time with sumsummary.com!
Hetzner, Docker, Traefik as proxy and Apache / httpd inside the containers
- 2,000x faster route propagation by rewriting our Traefik gateway in Rust
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10 Lightweight API Gateways for Your Next Project
With some more work, you could configure proxies that work lower on the infrastructure level, like NGINX, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, or Traefik Proxy to give you the classic API gateway functionality. There's also KrakenD as another open-source option.
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Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab
Traefik - Modern reverse proxy and load balancer
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Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special
I wanted to try another one on Kubernetes. I chose Traefik because my searches mentioned it was the easiest to use in Kubernetes. As I mentioned, Traefik provides a Helm Chart, which makes it easy to install. Additionally, it integrates with OpenTelemetry.
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East, west, north, south: How to fix your local cluster routes
Another problem is that the default certificates issued by Traefik, are not trusted by other systems or browsers. So we frequently need to bypass security warnings, which by itself is indicative of a problem and encourages bad habits. Furthermore, even if we manage to configure our setup to use the ingress service from within the cluster, it depends on the backend application if it allows bypassing TLS host checking.
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Cloudflare is almost perfect
Sidecar containers: Google Cloud Run has a cool feature where you can run multiple containers next to each other. So for example, if you want to run Caddy or Traefik as a reverse proxy for your ingress container and then have both your web frontend container & backend api container co-located in the same service, you can do that & have everything be super low latency.
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Authorization (authz) and GraphQL
traefik: link --> re-uses go/http: 1MB for headers
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Setting Up a Multi-Purpose Server with Amazon EC2, Docker, and Traefik
The main goal of this guide is to establish a streamlined process for deploying web applications with minimal effort. Using Amazon EC2 with Docker and Traefik as a reverse proxy, we will create a flexible server environment that supports multiple web applications and services, including databases like PostgreSQL, on different ports. This setup will ensure smooth deployment workflows, easy vertical scaling, and adaptable management of routing for various services, allowing for efficient expansion and integration of additional components as needed.
- Traefik v3.0.1
Caddy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Caddy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-19.
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Self-hosting like a final boss: what I actually run on my home lab (and why)
Caddy: web server with automatic HTTPS
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12 Lựa Chọn Thay Thế Vercel Cần Xem Xét Vào Năm 2025
Caddy
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How I made my Home Server accessible outside my home
This single record will suffice as we will be using a reverse proxy to map each of our application. For the reverse proxy solution, we will be using Caddy, particularly xcaddy.
- Encrypted ClientHello with Caddy
- Caddy v2.10
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Simple Web Server
It looks nice and friendly, but for developers I can recommend exploring caddy[1] or nginx[2]. It's a useful technology to have worked with, even if they're ultimately only used for proxying analytics.
[1] https://caddyserver.com/
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Adventures in Homelabbing: From Cloud Obsession to Self-Hosted Shenanigans
I began to self-host a Minecraft server using Crafty Controller, an Excalidraw instance, Docmost to replace Notion, Plane to replace Jira, and Penpot to replace Figma. To be able to access them from the internet, I used Nginx Proxy Manager to set up reverse proxies with SSL. You can use Traefik or Caddy instead, but I enjoyed the ease-of-use of NPM. For a dashboard solution, I started with Homarr, but later switched to Homepage because I'm apparently incapable of making a decision and sticking with it.
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An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway
This approach offers a level of customizability similar to what xcaddy does for the Caddy server, eliminating the complexities associated with writing Rhai scripts to customize a precompiled binary, as is the case with the Apollo Router.
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The Easiest Way To Use Https In Localhost
Caddy is a server written in Go programming language, known to be easy peasy to configure (Unlike configuring Nginx), and it also includes https by default.
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Self-hosting with Caddy Server And Souin (Caching Module)
Caddy is the ultimate web server anyone should be using. This is true for production as well as for local development. It is very fast, and by default obtains and renews SSL certificates automatically. This is useful for when you want to test certain website feature that is only allowed when they're accessed with HTTPS. You get free TLS for all your subdomains, and it does that in a scalable way.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing traefik and Caddy you can also consider the following projects:
Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
HAProxy - HAProxy documentation
BunkerWeb - 🛡️ Open-source and next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF)
oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache