Chapter 1: Introduction to Traefik Chapter Goal: The chapter covers the need of a better load balancer using microservices components. It covers Traefik components and build the basic understanding. The reader will setup the environment which will get started with Traefik
No of pages: 20
Sub -Topics
1. Monolith to microservices architecture evolution
1. Static configuration challenges
2. Observability challenges
3. TLS as identity
2. Traefik components
1. CLI
2. Dashboard
Chapter 2: Configure Traefik Chapter Goal: The chapter will cover routing basics. It will discuss the various components.
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics
1. Entrypoint
2. Routers
3. Services
Chapter 3: Load Balancing and Failure Detection Chapter Goal: The chapter will cover different load balancing options available in Traefik.
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Configuring HTTP service
a. Round robin
b. Weighted round robin
c. Mirroring
d. Health checks
2. Configuring TCP service
a. Round robin
b. Weighted round robin
Chapter 4: Configure TLS Chapter Goal: TLS is an important part of load balancing. We will cover how to do TLS termination and TLS pass through using Traefik.
No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics:
1. Configure TLS termination
a. Using lets encrypt
2. Configure TLS pass-through
Chapter 5: Logs, Request Tracing and Black Listing
Chapter Goal: The chapter will cover observability features of Traefik
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Trafik logging
2. Access logs
3. Request tracing
4. IP blacklisting
5. Metrices
Chapter 6: Traefik as Microservices
Chapter Goal: The chapter will use Traefik for microservices traffic routing. It will load configuration and discover services from a backend. It will configure circuit breakers, throttling and retries.
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Routing using service discovery
2. configure circuit breakers and retries
3. configure throttling
4. Supporting canary routes
Chapter 7: Traefik as Kubernetes Ingress Chapter Goal: The chapter will setup Traefik as Kubernetes Ingress. It will setup mutual TLS authentication for identity and role based access control. It will send metrices and tracing to prometheus and Jagger K8s components.
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Configure Kubernetes ingress
2. Enable mTLS authentication
a. configure RBAC 3. Configure TLS termination for user requests
4. Configure request tracing with Jaeger
5. Capture metrices in pr
About the Author: Rahul Sharma is a seasoned Java developer with over 15 years of industry experience. In his career he has worked with companies of various sizes from enterprises to startups. During this time he has developed and managed microservices on the cloud (AWS/GCE/DigitalOcean) using open source software. He is an open source enthusiast and shares his experience at local meetups. He co-authored Java Unit Testing with JUnit 5 (Apress) and Getting Started with Istio Service Mesh (Apress).
Akshay Mathur is a software engineer with 15 years of experience, mostly in Java and web technologies. Most of his career has been spent building B2B platforms for enterprises, dealing with concerns such as scalability, configurability, multi-tenancy, and cloud engineering. He has hands-on experience implementing and operating microservices and Kubernetes in these ecosystems. Currently, he enjoys public speaking and blogging on new cloud native technologies (especially plain Kubernetes) and effective engineering culture.
