# Containous (Traefik Labs)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/containo/  
**Website:** https://traefik.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 21.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.3 from 21.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Containo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Cloud Native, Reverse Proxy, Load Balancer, Ingress Controller, API Gateway, Kubernetes, Open Source, Networking, Traefik

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/containo/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.