Traefik V4: What We’re Cooking for You
summary
Traefik v4 targets an end-of-2026 release and promises concrete changes: a new plugin system with WASM plugins and planned gRPC plugin support, a pre-routing layer for two-stage auth+routing, deeper Gateway API parity, better OpenTelemetry (auto-detecting Kubernetes attributes), and TLS/cert management improvements. Project stats: ~3 billion downloads, 55k GitHub stars, 800+ contributors. A merged nginx provider PR already lets Traefik reuse common ingress-nginx annotations and a demo shows switching an existing ingress from nginx to Traefik serving traffic successfully.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Traefik and team intro
- 3:12Retrospective of Traefik versions 1 to 3
- 11:25Traefik v4 goals
- 13:12Gateway API in v4
- 17:29OpenTelemetry observability
- 19:58Traefik vs Ingress-Nginx
- 24:16Security and engineering challenges
- 27:30Ingress-Nginx demo
- 29:22Pre-routing layer
- 31:49Plugins and WASM evolution
- 34:21Community plugin updates
- 36:56Dashboard and docs improvements
- 38:40TLS future plans
- 40:28Call to action
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