Nginx vs Traefik Performance (Reverse Proxy)

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0:00 Intro
1:15 What is a reverse proxy?
3:13 Nginx vs Traefik Comparison
5:42 Configuration Overview
7:30 Test Design
8:02 1st Test

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#nginx #traefik #devops

[AntonPutra]

⚠If you can improve Traefik, please send me a PR, and I'll rerun the test! ⚠

[michaelutech]

Thank you Anton! Your benchmarks start to become part of my (nearly) daily diet. I wouldn't have thought benchmarks could replace the news paper in the coffee shop. Strange times in deed ;-)

Your doing a great job here delivering real value, especially since you keep adding more and more tools.

I love it!

[keith]

I really like the short introduction explaining the services at the start of each video. Super helpful.

[guoard]

Thank you for your video and effort. that was perfect.
I am still waiting for Nginx vs HAProxy comparison.

[MightyMoud]

Wow! Just visited your channel to see the latest test. Turns out it’s the one I asked for ❤

[isc]

Thanks man i watch your tthree nginx vids in a row (vs apache, caddy and traefik), and others as well, you provided me with great information and insights and i am grateful for that, keep up the good work man, subscribed!!

Edit: Please never add background music, it's annoying

[FireWyvern]

It's mind blowing how long established software is more performant and efficent than new one

[TheLittleAlien]

Excellent to see these performance metrics. I had been experimenting with Traefik because of its Docker container support but noticed that under larger IoT dashboard loads pages appeared to stutter. That had never been the case under Ngnix and I first thought it's my Proxmox configuration. I also noticed generally higher CPU loads. So this does explain a lot.

[zRetix]

And once again we see, it's never just all about the hype :D Great video, thanks for that! I expected nginx to outperform it, if configured well, but I would have never guessed, by this much!

[Techonsapevole]

Super Anton! Thanks for the Traefik benchmark!

[chrzan]

Oh man, that wasn't even a fair fight. Perhaps there's some additional configuration that could help Traefik, but I'd say that it isn't going to beat Nginx, regardless of the config.

[carterdee]

I use traefik simply because it is very convenient for my use case. Its very easy to deploy new applications on docker swarm since i only have to worry about labels and it just works and free ssl aswell

[PragmaticIT]

Anton thanks for your work! Really great

[Eliasam]

I was literally debating if i should stick with Nginx or use Traefik, thanks for this video. Nginx it is.

[SpaghettiRealm]

Hello Anton,

Thanks for the insight. Great content in your channel.

[MelroyvandenBerg]

Great video! Well explained and a fair benchmark. I was hoping that Freenginx will have new features that in nginx are missing from the open source version.

[askosyrskiy]

@AntonPutra Do you have instructions on how you setup the monitoring infra? like Prometheus and Grafana

nice tests btw

[joebeurg]

Thanks a lot Anton, always helpful.
Well, I was expecting these results, as I believe that Traefik can be more suitable if servers were deployed using docker, as Traefik provides better integration and the easiest configuration to setup load balancer and especially if trying to load and configure ports and SSL certs with docker.

[yaninyz_witt-mwa]

Test nginx and haproxy as reverse proxies

[antonztxone]

Thank you so much for this info ! Great job!