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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.
Pros of Section
- Makes the hard parts of varnish easy10
- Realtime stats10
- No more hair pulling configuring caching8
- Git support8
- Easy setup7
- Qa testing6
- Test Varnish Settings in Dev & Prod5
- Kibana logs4
- Graphite out of the box3
- Professional, rock solid platform, easy to user2
Pros of Traefik
- Kubernetes integration20
- Watch service discovery updates18
- Letsencrypt support14
- Swarm integration13
- Several backends12
- Ready-to-use dashboard6
- Easy setup4
- Rancher integration4
- Mesos integration1
- Mantl integration1
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Cons of Section
Cons of Traefik
- Complicated setup7
- Not very performant (fast)7