Compress

Compressing the Response before Sending it to the Client

Compress

The Compress middleware enables the gzip compression.

Configuration Examples

  1. # Enable gzip compression
  2. labels:
  3. - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"
  1. # Enable gzip compression
  2. apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
  3. kind: Middleware
  4. metadata:
  5.   name: test-compress
  6. spec:
  7.   compress: {}
  1. "labels": {
  2.   "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress": "true"
  3. }
  1. # Enable gzip compression
  2. labels:
  3. - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"
  1. # Enable gzip compression
  2. [http.middlewares]
  3.   [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]
  1. # Enable gzip compression
  2. http:
  3.   middlewares:
  4.     test-compress:
  5.       compress: {}

Notes

Responses are compressed when:

  • The response body is larger than 1400 bytes.
  • The Accept-Encoding request header contains gzip.
  • The response is not already compressed, i.e. the Content-Encoding response header is not already set.