# Traefik Proxy

Generated on 26 Nov 2025 from [the Traefik Proxy catalog page](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/traefik-proxy)

Traefik is an [open-source](https://github.com/traefik/traefik) Application Proxy and the core of the Traefik Hub Runtime Platform.

If you start with Traefik for service discovery and routing, you can seamlessly add [API management](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-management/), [API gateway](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-gateway/), [AI gateway](https://traefik.io/solutions/ai-gateway/), and [API mocking](https://traefik.io/solutions/api-mocking/) capabilities as needed.

With 3.3 billion downloads and over 55k stars on GitHub, Traefik is used globally across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, on prem, and bare metal environments running Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS, the list goes on.

Here’s how it works—Traefik receives requests on behalf of your system, identifies which components are responsible for handling them, and routes them securely. It automatically discovers the right configuration for your services by inspecting your infrastructure to identify relevant information and which service serves which request.

Because everything happens automatically, in real time (no restarts, no connection interruptions), you can focus on developing and deploying new features to your system, instead of configuring and maintaining its working state.

## Software Included

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## Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the **Deploy to DigitalOcean** button to install a Kubernetes 1-Click Application. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

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## Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating Traefik Proxy using the control panel, you can also use the [DigitalOcean API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api). As an example, to create a 3 node DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster made up of Basic Droplets in the SFO2 region, you can use the following `doctl` command. You need to authenticate with `doctl` with your [API access token](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/index.html.md) and replace the `$CLUSTER_NAME` variable with the chosen name for your cluster in the command below.

```shell
doctl kubernetes clusters create --size s-4vcpu-8gb $CLUSTER_NAME --1-clicks traefik
```

## Getting Started After Deploying Traefik Proxy

[Getting Started with Traefik](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/getting-started/)

To view the Traefik dashboard, authenticate against your DOKS cluster and run the following command to expose the dashboard locally:

kubectl port-forward -n traefik deployment/traefik 8080

Navigate to http://localhost:8080/dashboard/ to view the dashboard.