Make load-balancing great again with Træfik!

Microservices seem to come off over the years and has now become the model for the development of modern applications. This model, initiated by some web giants (Netflix, Google …), promotes extreme applications modularization, runs counter to the monolithic model. Microservices allows: reduced release cycle, loose coupling between services, standardization of communication (REST), reduction of risks during deliveries, cloud orientation, etc.

But it still remains tedious to easily connect these services without changing the application code. Træfik was born from this.

traefik.io, a reverse-proxy that can watch orchestrators’ API to generate its configuration automatically. This tiny tools solves what can be a huge pain when dealing with microservices deployed in an orchestrator.

Key takeaways:

• Learn how a modern reverse-proxy and ingress loadbalancer work
• Learn how to publish many dynamic microservices at container orchestrator.
• Learn how easy it is to setup automatically Let’s Encrypt
• Scale services without any manual reconfiguration
• Learn tricks from active Træfik developers

Slides:

https://emilevauge.github.io/DOG2017