Glossary

This section clarifies terms specific to TraefikEE.

CLI

TraefikEE comes with two Command-Line Interface tools: traefikee and teectl. The first is the traefikee binary itself, and the latter helps you manage your traefikee cluster (you can see it as a remote).

Note

You can read the full documentation of traefikee and teectl to learn more about what you can achieve with them.

Controller

Controller(s) are TraefikEE instances with components that are responsible for creating and managing the cluster. They are also responsible for synchronizing configuration changes with the proxies.

Note

In IT this is often described as the control plane and you can find more about this concept on Wikipedia or by readying the RFC3746 and RFC3746.

Proxy

Proxy(s) are TraefikEE instances with components that are responsible for handling the routing of incoming requests. It's components are configured by the controller components.

Note

In IT this is often described as the data plane and you can find more about this concept on Wikipedia - Forwarding plane or by reading the RFC3746.

Cluster Configuration

Configuration of a TraefikEE cluster, for example the cluster license and the number of controllers and proxies.

Static Configuration

Static Configuration is applied to controllers and proxies and contains information such as the providers and entrypoints. TraefikEE uses the same static configuration as Traefik with a few additions, such as Authentication Sources.

Dynamic configuration

Dynamic Configuration is gathered from orchestrators and contains the definitions for resources like routers, services and middleware. See the dynamic configuration reference for more information.

Cluster Command

A cluster command is a request sent to the TraefikEE cluster. The request will be handled by one of the controller but will update/request the state of the whole cluster.

Note

Cluster commands are documented in the traefikee Command Line Reference section.

Infrastructure Components

In the documentation, infrastructure components refers to third-party tools like orchestrators and key-value stores.

Quorum

We often mention the quorum in the documentation. In TraefikEE, it is the minimum number of controller of a cluster that must be up in order for the cluster to be healthy. For more information on the amount of controller your cluster should have, take a look at this section of the documentation.

ACME

ACME stands for 'Automatic Certificate Management Environment' and is protocol that can be used to interact with certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt.

Static and Dynamic Configuration

Please refer to the Traefik configuration overview.

Authentication Source

An Authentication Source is a source (such as an LDAP server) with which TraefikEE middleware can authenticate the validity of a request.