TCP support

[chendo]

Would be awesome if this also supported TCP backends (ideally with optional TLS support)!

[emilevauge]

It needs some (a lot of ?) work... But it would be awsome :)

[xiaods]

TCP + TLS ? need more details on this proposal

[pragone]

+1.
I love the concept of traefik for a microservices environment as it facilitates service discovery and balancing. But not all services are HTTP based. So, from what I understand, it can't be used for load-balancing MySQL or similar services.
If I have a microservices environment where I need another LB technology for any non-http service (for example HAProxy + Marathon template) I won't adopt traefik just to keep the number of moving pieces low. I think therefore that this is an important feature.
My 2 cents

[Ozzadar]

I highly support the addition of this feature =)

[faddat]

+1

[ghost]

+1 on this, I've been pushing a similar project called Fabio that has already solved this problem with Consul (though they don't do HTTP like here) to add Mesos/Marathon as an option but I'd really like to see this in Traefik.

[emilevauge]

Hi @rvm2015, as far as I know, fabio is only supporting HTTP/S right now. How are you doing this with Fabio?

[ghost]

You are correct, I am mistaken. I've been shopping around for a TCP load balancer and I misread their feature set.

[altvnk]

+1 for TCP services

[faddat]

+1 indeed. We currently use an ugly hack to do it. I feel that traefik
was a lot more elegant, not to mention stable.

[tpolekhin]

+1 for TCP

[klausenbusk]

+1

[hd-deman]

@faddat how did you hacked this?

[Ozzadar]

@hd-deman It wasn't with traefik. It was a combination of adding Consul to our marathon stack, using a marathon-consul container to report changes in applications to consul then using a haproxy-consul bridge to port forward from there.

I'm not going to link here but if you'd like links to the different components feel free to send me a message and I'll forward you to them. This stack isn't extremely suitable for production though as you'd need to write a watcher daemon to make sure that all the components don't explode on you. (as they tend to do)

+1 again. Traefik TCP/UDP support the dream :)

[faddat]

see @Ozzadar's answer-- he's the one who actually implemented the hack.
We're both glad to help if you need :).

[spoon99]

+1

[cedvan]

👍

[referup-amontero]

+1 for TCP. It would be awesome!

[pataquets]

+1 for TCP/UDP. Added to TLS, would make the perfect solution.
Thanks for this software.

[saswatp]

+1 TCP Load balancing would make it awesome and reduce the feature difference with other LBs like HAProxy or NGINX

[gembin]

+1 for TCP

[darxkies]

+1 for TCP

[ghost]

👍 for TCP!

[emdem]

+1 for TCP

[marshyski]

+1

[blsmth]

i know these are useless and code would be better, but +1

[emilevauge]

Locking conversation, to avoid +1.