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I use Traefik in production (with containers), and my favorite aspect of it is that the configuration is carried via the labels on containers which means I rarely if ever need to make any modifications to the Traefik config itself. I'd say the biggest con is trying to figure out how to pronounce the name - I think it's just regular traffic, but I can't help wanting to call it "trey-feek" or something like that.

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Heavy +1 on the labels thing. Reduces the scope of things to keep track of massively, even if writing them the first time is slightly harder because of the escaping and verbosity.

I think a combination of traefik and docker compose are in the sweet spot for small scale self hosters that haven't reached the point where k8s will pay off. i.e. if you have less servers than a k8s HA control plane would use.

Small-scale self hoster would certainly describe my situation (though we do have some of the same infrastructure issues as larger companies). We actually use Swarm which I generally like, but if it was my call we might have looked more at a simplified Kubernetes platform like K3s just because of a safety in numbers aspect.

We're also using it in production. And people might laugh, but naming something which looks fine/cool/quirky on paper, but is actually terrible in practice is a big con. The amount of frowns and laughs we got from colleagues is staggering and a hindrance to implementation and using a product.

We've called it "tray-feek" and it was half ok, then we actually had a call with the official support and they told us its pronounced same as regular "traffic". So any discussion about that proxy goes with: "so we're receiving traffic on our public load balancer which used traffic's native load balancing to send traffic to traffic's pods...". It sounds stupid because it is stupid.

I just pronounce it "traffic". I'm not playing their damn head games.

I would say the biggest con is that, if a container is not existing/running, traefik is not aware of it or its labels. Otherwise you could more easily do cool stuff like maintenance pages, bringing up containers on the first request after inactivity etc. So for me, I have been thinking about creating a plugin that is aware of where I store my compose files and can look at them instead.

ae is closest to y, or hi. So Tryfik, is my guess, otherwise is Trayfik. If it's European fik, might be feek. *Just taking a guess here.

I think its "träfik", i.e. "traffic" with a German accent.

> ae is closest to y, or hi. So Tryfik, is my guess, otherwise is Trayfik. If it's European fik, might be feek. *Just taking a guess here.

I wondered how to pronounce Traefik myself, so I started googling, and came across this: https://traefik.io/blog/how-to-pronounce-traefik-d06696a3f02...

Tldr: just pronounce as you would "traffic".

apparently "traffic" https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/795

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