Consider switching from Nginx to Traefik

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
kubernetes, nginx

Research direction

Start by reviewing the current Nginx setup and comparing the Kubernetes Ingress and CRD installation options mentioned in the issue. Done means determining whether Traefik can replace Nginx while preserving ForwardAuth-based authentication, WebSocket scaling, and no-downtime configuration changes.

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Description

feature

Feature Request

This issue is a reminder to explore this possibility, not a hard requirement.

Is your feature request related to a problem or unsupported use case? Please describe.

We are having trouble scaling WebSockets using Nginx. Nginx is not easy to configure with WebSocket. And we have a hard requirement with the usage of the Nginx module ngx_http_auth_request_module.

Describe the solution you'd like

Traefik managed WebSocket natively, The auth_request module can be replaced by the Traefik ForwardAuth middleware.

In Kubernetes, we have to investigate between the Traefik ingress and the Kubernetes CRD installation. The CRD seems to be more configurable and probably have no downtime when the configuration is changed.

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