traefik VS Nginx Proxy Manager

Compare traefik vs Nginx Proxy Manager and see what are their differences.

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traefik Nginx Proxy Manager
183 651
47,726 19,499
1.5% 4.3%
9.2 8.8
5 days ago 8 days ago
Go JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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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 2024-04-04.
  • How to securely reverse-proxy ASP.NET Core web apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024
    However, it's very unlikely that .NET developers will directly expose their Kestrel-based web apps to the internet. Typically, we use other popular web servers like Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy to act as a reverse-proxy in front of Kestrel for various reasons:
  • Deploying Web Apps with Caddy: A Beginner's Guide Caddy
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    Not as good though. Case in point: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/5472#issuecomment-... (that's just from this morning)

    I'm speak objectively here. Of course, any built-in auto HTTPS that works (more or less) is better than none. Traefik uses an ACME library that was originally written for Caddy. After the original author left that project, Traefik team started maintaining it. Caddy's users' requirements exceeded what the library was capable of, but unfortunately there was friction in getting it to achieve our requirements. So I ended up writing a new ACME client library in Go and, together with upgrades in CertMagic (Caddy's auto-TLS lib), Caddy has the more flexible, robust, and capable auto-HTTPS functionality.

    That is to say, not all auto-HTTPS functionalities are the same.

  • Security Workshop Part 1 - Put up a gate
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Nov 2023
    We'll use Traefik, an open source cloud native gateway that can plug into a Kubernetes cluster. It has the concept of "middleware" that can process API requests before passing them through to a backend. We can configuring a rate limit for all of our API endpoints by matching on the request path:
  • Install plugin in k8s cluster running in Kind
    1 project | /r/Traefik | 2 Nov 2023
    I did the same question here and here
  • The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
  • Set Default Config in traefik.toml and overwrite with specific container config
    1 project | /r/Traefik | 25 Sep 2023
    Sadly there is currently no way of doing so. https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/6999
  • Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
  • Docker Services question
    2 projects | /r/docker | 5 Jul 2023
    Traefik is another widely used system that has automatic configuration and offers support for more things like swarm/kubernetes/etc.
  • nginx alternatives
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 5 Jul 2023
    I have a webapp which I currently have deployed by running nginx in a container. Works as it should, however I am intersted in adding more observability to the webapp and found this reverse-proxy https://github.com/traefik/traefik which seems to expose some nice metrics which can be useful for observability.
  • Make traefik only accessible over tailscale
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 4 Jul 2023
    ``` more details in this (github issue)[https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/5059]

Nginx Proxy Manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nginx Proxy Manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing traefik and Nginx Proxy Manager you can also consider the following projects:

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

docker-swag - Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with php support and a built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client. It also contains fail2ban for intrusion prevention.

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

socks5-proxy-server - SOCKS5 proxy server

Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache

acme-dns - Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

BunkerWeb - 🛡️ Make your web services secure by default !

docker-pi-hole - Pi-hole in a docker container

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

homer - A very simple static homepage for your server.