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Google Traffic Director vs Traefik: What are the differences?
Developers describe Google Traffic Director as "Enterprise-ready traffic management for open service mesh". A powerful abstraction that's become increasingly popular to deliver microservices and modern applications. Provides policy, configuration, and intelligence to service proxies. On the other hand, Traefik is detailed as "Load Balancer for Microservices". Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
Google Traffic Director and Traefik belong to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack.
Traefik is an open source tool with 23.2K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Traefik's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Google Traffic Director
Pros of Traefik
- Kubernetes integration20
- Watch service discovery updates18
- Letsencrypt support14
- Swarm integration13
- Several backends12
- Ready-to-use dashboard6
- Easy setup4
- Rancher integration4
- Mesos integration1
- Mantl integration1
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Cons of Google Traffic Director
Cons of Traefik
- Not very performant (fast)7
- Complicated setup7
