Traefik Hub API Management
Traefik Hub & API Management
Traefik Hub is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native API Management solution for publishing, securing, and managing APIs.
Traefik Hub, purpose-built for K8s environments and GitOps workflows, drastically simplifies and accelerates the API lifecycle management, so organizations experience quick time to value, unleash workforce productivity, and can focus on building great applications.
Key Capabilities of Traefik Hub
Publish, Secure, and Manage Any API
Managing APIs becomes hassle-free. Wherever they are hosted, you can publish, secure and manage them from their URLs or leverage the built-in auto-discovery to catalog all available Kubernetes microservices. Regardless of the Kubernetes distribution, across hybrid, multi-cloud, or edge environments, or your choice of ingress controller, Traefik Hub lets you manage APIs at scale, the Kubernetes-native and fully declarative way.
Traefik Hub's full GitOps compliance further ensures deployment standardization, speed, and compliance.
- Flexible API grouping and versioning with rate-limiting and security controls
- Fully GitOps compliant, 100% declarative, and CRDs-driven operations
Self-serve API Portal for Developers
Traefik Hub API portal provides API owners and administrators complete freedom to organize their API assets through both point-and-click and GitOps (fully declarative, CRD-based) mechanisms. In addition, the developer-friendly API portal offers vital self-serve capabilities such as API discovery, documentation, testing, and access control along with error and usage analytics.
- Portal RBAC (role-based access control)
- OpenAPI Specifications (OAS) 2.0 & 3.0 support
- Customizable API Developer Portal with white label support
Central Control Plane for Unified Management and Observability
Traefik Hub's central control plane offers a single management point for all APIs, users, and infrastructure components, thereby reducing errors & inconsistencies while maximizing operational efficiency. API owners and Developers get a single source of truth to manage and observe the adoption, performance and security of their most valuable API assets.
- Access Control (OIDC, JWT) and Rate limiting
- OpenTelemetry support
- Plug-ins support (WASM-based and Go-based)
Feature Matrix
| Feature | Traefik Proxy | Traefik Hub API Gateway | Traefik Hub API Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| Services Auto-Discovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Graceful Configuration Reload | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Websockets, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TCP, UDP, GRPC ready | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time Metrics & Distributed Tracing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canary Deployments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Let's Encrypt | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plugin Support (Go, WASM) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hybrid cloud, multi-cloud & on-prem compatible | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Per-cluster dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitOps-native declarative configuration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JWT Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OpenID Connect Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| API Key Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Open Policy Agent | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Native Coraza Web Application Firewall (WAF) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| HashiCorp Vault Integration | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Distributed Let's Encrypt | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Distributed Rate Limit | ✓ | ✓ | |
| HTTP Caching | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FIPS 140-2 Compliance | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Flexible API grouping and versioning | ✓ | ||
| API Developer Portal | ✓ | ||
| OpenAPI Specifications Support | ✓ | ||
| Multi-cluster dashboard | ✓ | ||
| Built-in identity provider (or use your own) | ✓ | ||
| Configuration linter & change impact analysis | ✓ | ||
| Pre-built Grafana dashboards | ✓ | ||
| Event correlation for quick incident mitigation | ✓ | ||
| Traffic debugger (coming soon) | ✓ | ||
| Built-In Commercial Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |