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linkerd vs Traefik: What are the differences?
What is linkerd? Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices. linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
What is Traefik? 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.
linkerd belongs to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack, while Traefik can be primarily classified under "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy".
linkerd and Traefik are both open source tools. Traefik with 23.2K GitHub stars and 2.4K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than linkerd with 5.01K GitHub stars and 501 GitHub forks.
Pros of linkerd
- CNCF Project3
- Service Mesh1
- Fast Integration1
- Pre-check permissions1
- Light Weight1
Pros of Traefik
- Kubernetes integration20
- Watch service discovery updates18
- Letsencrypt support14
- Swarm integration13
- Several backends12
- Ready-to-use dashboard6
- Easy setup4
- Rancher integration4
- Mantl integration1
- Mesos integration1
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Cons of linkerd
Cons of Traefik
- Not very performant (fast)7
- Complicated setup7