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Section vs Traefik: What are the differences?

Section: Run compute workloads on a distributed edge. Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge; Traefik: Load Balancer for Microservices. Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.

Section can be classified as a tool in the "Web Cache" category, while Traefik is grouped under "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy".

"Realtime stats" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Section, while over 10 developers mention "Kubernetes integration" as the leading cause for choosing Traefik.

Traefik is an open source tool with 23.2K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Traefik's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Section
Pros of Traefik
  • 10
    Makes the hard parts of varnish easy
  • 10
    Realtime stats
  • 8
    No more hair pulling configuring caching
  • 8
    Git support
  • 7
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Qa testing
  • 5
    Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod
  • 4
    Kibana logs
  • 3
    Graphite out of the box
  • 2
    Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user
  • 20
    Kubernetes integration
  • 18
    Watch service discovery updates
  • 14
    Letsencrypt support
  • 13
    Swarm integration
  • 12
    Several backends
  • 6
    Ready-to-use dashboard
  • 4
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Rancher integration
  • 1
    Mesos integration
  • 1
    Mantl integration

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Cons of Section
Cons of Traefik
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    • 7
      Complicated setup
    • 7
      Not very performant (fast)

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    What is Section?

    Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.

    What is Traefik?

    A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

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