Containous (Traefik Labs)

Containous SAS is the France-founded (2016) cloud-native networking company that created Traefik, the open-source reverse proxy, ingress controller, and load balancer written in Go and downloaded billions of times from Docker Hub. Containous was surfaced through the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Balderton Capital, which led its Series A alongside Elaia Partners, 360 Capital, Kima Ventures, and OSS Capital. The company subsequently rebranded to Traefik Labs and its original containo.us domain now redirects to traefik.io. Under the Traefik Labs name it ships the open-source Traefik Proxy plus the commercial Traefik Hub product line (API Gateway, API Management, AI Gateway, and MCP Gateway). This repo is the company/parent profile; the full product and API surface (OpenAPI, CRDs, examples) lives in the api-evangelist/traefik repo.

Containous (Traefik Labs) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud Native, Reverse Proxy, Load Balancer, and Ingress Controller.

Containous (Traefik Labs)’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 13 more developer resources.

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22.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 22.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Contact

Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

About

Careers

Press

Partners

Source (apis.yml)

aid: containo
name: Containous (Traefik Labs)
description: Containous SAS is the France-founded (2016) cloud-native networking company that created Traefik, the open-source
  reverse proxy, ingress controller, and load balancer written in Go and downloaded billions of times from Docker Hub. Containous
  was surfaced through the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Balderton Capital, which led its Series A alongside
  Elaia Partners, 360 Capital, Kima Ventures, and OSS Capital. The company subsequently rebranded to Traefik Labs and its
  original containo.us domain now redirects to traefik.io. Under the Traefik Labs name it ships the open-source Traefik Proxy
  plus the commercial Traefik Hub product line (API Gateway, API Management, AI Gateway, and MCP Gateway). This repo is the
  company/parent profile; the full product and API surface (OpenAPI, CRDs, examples) lives in the api-evangelist/traefik repo.
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maintainers:
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://traefik.io/legal/privacy-and-cookie-policy
- type: About
  url: https://traefik.io/about-us
- type: Careers
  url: https://traefik.io/careers
- type: Press
  url: https://traefik.io/press
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- type: Partners
  url: https://traefik.io/partners
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