# Do I really need it?

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/do-i-really-need-it/20875>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [December 24, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/do-i-really-need-it/20875 "2023-12-24T05:08:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Computermaster20](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/computermaster20/32/8021_2.png) [@Computermaster20](https://community.traefik.io/u/Computermaster20)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/do-i-really-need-it/20875/1 "2023-12-24T05:08:33Z")

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Hey guys. I am new here like very new. After looking over for the documentation it appears that it's really encouraged to put this inside of a container like docker. I have installed Ubuntu server on a VM in the DMZ of my environment and I guess I'm a little confused on if I even need to put it in a docker container or is it possible to just let the VM take care of it and run Traerik on ubuntu its self or If that's even possible. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![bluepuma77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@bluepuma77](https://community.traefik.io/u/bluepuma77)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/do-i-really-need-it/20875/2 "2023-12-24T07:36:21Z")

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Sure, you can run Traefik as plain app on your Linux distribution without Docker ([doc](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/master/getting-started/install-traefik/#use-the-binary-distribution)).

But without Docker (or Kubernetes) you lose a lot of the Configuration Discovery functionality, which can automatically route to target services based on labels.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/containo/original/2X/b/bd81ebdb578656e76e56ff3cc3eed021d3ba132d.png) [@system](https://community.traefik.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/do-i-really-need-it/20875/3 "2023-12-27T07:37:16Z")

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