The Universal Kubernetes Gateway for All Workloads
Traefik now supports Knative Serving, bringing enterprise-grade, production-ready networking to your serverless workloads. Easily run traditional APIs and event-driven functions through a unified gateway—on any Kubernetes distribution.
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Complete Your Cloud-Native Journey
Traefik's Knative support completes the journey from traditional to modern, serverless infrastructure—all managed through a single, unified gateway platform.
One Traefik deployment. Every workload type. Zero vendor lock-in.
Why Traefik for Knative
The networking layer is critical for serverless success. Traefik delivers enterprise capabilities without complexity.
Unified Gateway
Single solution for all Kubernetes traffic—Ingress, Gateway API, and Knative Serving.
Eliminate parallel networking stacks
One team, one toolset, one configuration model
Consistent policies across all workload types
Reduce operational complexity & training overhead
Proven at Scale
Battle-tested with billions of downloads and trusted by enterprises worldwide.
3.4B+ downloads demonstrate production reliability
Efficient Go-based architecture with minimal footprint
Dynamic routing with zero manual configuration
Handles high-traffic workloads with predictable performance
Developer Experience
Simple yet powerful. Designed for developer productivity without sacrificing control.
Intuitive configuration that teams already know
Automatic service discovery & traffic management
Rich middleware ecosystem for extensibility
Comprehensive documentation & community support
What You Get With Traefik
Knative-Aware Routing
Automatic service discovery and routing to Knative Services, Revisions, or the Activator when scaled to zero. Seamless integration with Knative's autoscaling lifecycle.
Traffic Splitting
Weighted routing for canary releases and A/B testing. Tag-based routing to specific revisions. Zero-downtime deployments with instant rollback capability.
TLS Automation
Native certificate management with Let's Encrypt ACME support. Automatic renewal and serving. Custom domain support without manual configuration.
Enterprise Security
JWT/OIDC authentication, mTLS encryption, IP filtering, and rate limiting. Apply consistent security policies across traditional and serverless workloads.
Complete Observability
OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs out of the box. Unified visibility across all traffic with integration to your existing monitoring stack.
Multi-Protocol Support
HTTP/1.1/2, gRPC, WebSocket, and CloudEvents. Works on any Kubernetes distribution—i.e., managed clouds, on-premises, or edge.
Perfect for Event-Driven Workloads
Knative with Traefik excels for applications with variable traffic patterns that benefit from automatic scaling and cost optimization.
Event-Driven APIs
Webhook handlers, event processors, background jobs. Scale to zero between events, burst instantly to handle spikes.
Data & AI Pipelines
ML inference, data transformation, ETL. Burstable processing for LLM & ML workloads triggered by events or schedules.
Sporadic APIs
APIs with unpredictable traffic. Scale down during quiet periods, & automatically handle demand surges without manual intervention.
Modern CI/CD
On-demand test runners, build agents, deployment gates. Run only when needed with canary traffic splits for validation.
IoT Processing
Handle sensor data streams with variable patterns. Process events as they arrive & scale with device activity.
Multi-Tenant SaaS
Per-tenant routing, limits, & analytics. Efficient resource utilization across customer workloads with isolation.
Ready to Run Serverless on K8s?
Deploy Knative services with enterprise-grade networking through Traefik. Get started today.
