Traefik today announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, its cloud-native API management solution for publishing, securing and managing APIs. Founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge, Traefik Labs had an early focus on its open source projects: Traefik Proxy and Mesh — a cloud-native reverse-proxy solution and service mesh.
Back in 2015, Vauge was a developer and DevOps consultant after stints at Lyra Network, Airbus, Thales Communications and Nortel. At the time, he was trying to make thousands of microservices accessible over the internet and the existing solutions did not satisfy his needs.
“Basically, I started to work on my own stuff and I ended up by open sourcing Traefik — a reverse proxy built from scratch for microservices and containers. Front page of Hacker News. It was an unexpected great success, which led me to found Traefik Labs the company a few months later,” Vauge told me at KubeCon Amsterdam last month.
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