Traefik
Traefik is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Web Servers & Reverse Proxies category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok and ships a Docker image. It has 65,373 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 65,373
- Forks
- 6,268
- Open issues
- 678
- Commits, last 12 months
- 922
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.7.16Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Sep 13, 2015
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 922 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 922 |
| Latest release | v3.7.16 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 563 |
| Open issues | 678 |
| Open pull requests | 283 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Sep 13, 2015 |
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About Traefik
HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/traefik/traefik.
Topics
- microservice
- docker
- consul
- kubernetes
- load-balancer
- reverse-proxy
- letsencrypt
- golang
- go
- traefik
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Is Traefik free and open source?
Yes. Traefik is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Traefik with Docker?
Yes. Traefik provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to Traefik?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Traefik include Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager and NGINX. Traefik itself is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok.
Is Traefik actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Traefik was on Oct 23, 2026 with 922 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.7.16, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 678 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.