Traefik¶

What is traefik¶

Traefik is a Reverse Proxy Server + Load Balancer that facilitates the (automated) deployment of Docker Containers.

Setup procedure¶

Within this project we use v1.4.4 / roquefort

Hints for the setup [1]

--mkdir -p /docker/traefik

docker network create --opt encrypted --driver overlay traefik-net

docker network create --driver overlay traefik-net

# PULL UPDATE & LAUNCH DOCKER
#     git pull && docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml demo

# REMOVE STACK
#     docker stack rm demo

# ADD BASIC AUTH and ESCAPE FOR docker-compose usage
# htpasswd -bBn user password | sed 's/\$/\$\$/g' #escape for docker-compose usage

version: "3"

services:
  nginx:
    image: kitematic/hello-world-nginx
    networks:
      - traefik-net
    environment:
      - test=noContent
    deploy:
      labels:
        - traefik.port=80
#        - "traefik.frontend.auth.basic=witt:$$2y$$05$$kOFY7071ilbnpiJNDaIO9e1WeuhHnKtp9Adrevz4r8wJ3b3X1XuqW"
#        - "traefik.frontend.auth.basic=ich:$$2y$$05$$jTZv0re2cXmiGrzRxW./8Ofse.6g/AEChvbMGdqYKIMqsr8xW/c"
#        - "traefik.frontend.auth.basic=user:$$2y$$05$$IRrTxLpG7ICzroI8Pb5P4.p2rMXGqyeeZM857BJxTFzP5q9W4RYuS"
        - "traefik.frontend.rule=Host:demo.f4a.me"
networks:
  traefik-net:
   external: true

To run it just on one machine:

docker network create traefik-net

[1]	DDD Paul https://dddpaul.github.io/blog/2016/11/07/traefik-on-docker-swarm/

Basic auth support¶

create a file for authentication, so no need for listing the users in the call:

touch .htpasswd
htpasswd -bB .htpasswd username password