---
title: Traefik
description: Hypercharged reverse proxy with Docker autodiscovery and other goodies
published: true
date: 2019-12-28T17:37:38.426Z
tags: 
---

# What is this?

Traefik hogs your ports `80` and `443` (and others), will intercept HTTP requests to your server and forward them to different endpoints.

It allows you to run multiple web services on the same IP address and access them on a domain name basis.

We use both the Docker backend and a manual routing backend.

# Requirements
To make it easier to have multiple `docker-compose.yml` without having to specify networks by hand, we use Traefik natively installed on the host, rather than the usual Docker install.

This allows it to access all Docker networks by default. 

On NixOS:

```
    traefik = {
      enable = true;
      group = "docker";
      configFile = "/var/lib/traefik/traefik.toml";
    };
```

Using docker-compose:
```
version: '3.7'

services:
  traefik:
    image: traefik:latest
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - ./config/:/etc/traefik/
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
```

# Traefik Configuration
Paths vary between a docker-compose install or a NixOS install. The container wants its files placed at `/etc/traefik/` while a native install is most likely to prefer `/var/lib/traefik/`. 

Paths provided in this example use the `/etc/traefik/` route. 

An `acme` folder needs to exist with `700` permissions, inside there should be an `acme.json` with 600 permissions. Without them, Let's Encrypt certificates will never work. 

## Static configuration
Changing this requires a Traefik restart.

`/etc/traefik/traefik.yml`
```
api:
  dashboard: true

entryPoints:
  web:
    address: ":80"
  web-secure:
    address: ":443"

providers:
  docker:
    endpoint: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
    exposedByDefault: false
  file:
    filename: /etc/traefik/config.yml
    watch: true

certificatesResolvers:
  default:
    acme:
      email: example@changeme.com
      storage: /etc/traefik/acme/acme.json
      tlsChallenge: {}

log:
  level: WARNING
  filePath: /etc/traefik/debug.log
  format: json
```

## Dynamic configuration
Traefik live reloads this file.

All http input is elevated to https using the "redirect" middleware. `traefik` and `netdata` routers listen on 443. `traefik` also runs the "auth" middleware to ask for password. 

`/etc/traefik/config.yml`
```
http:
  routers:
    redirector:
      rule: HostRegexp(`{any:.*}`)
      entryPoints:
        - "web"
      service: dummy
      middlewares:
        - redirect
    traefik:
      rule: Host(`traefik.your.domain`)
      entryPoints: 
        - "web-secure"
      service: api@internal
      middlewares:
        - auth
      tls:
        certResolver: default
    netdata:
      rule: Host(`netdata.your.domain`)
      entryPoints: 
        - "web-secure"
      service: netdata
      tls:
        certResolver: default

  services:
    dummy:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://127.0.0.1
    netdata:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://localhost:19999

  middlewares:
    redirect:
      redirectScheme:
        scheme: https
    auth:
      basicAuth:
        users:
          - 'test:$apr1$tyoqkxlc$BbG4rHVMcV7mSQWIgEZQT0' #test/test

tls:
  options:
    default:
      sniStrict: true
      minVersion: VersionTLS12
      cipherSuites:
        - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305
        - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
        - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
        - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

    mintls13: 
      minVersion: VersionTLS13
```

# Configuring a docker-compose Service
This is the most usual configuration a service will need, which is self explanatory.

```
version: '3.7'

services:
  whoami:
    image: containous/whoami
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.whoami.entryPoints=web-secure
      - traefik.http.routers.whoami.rule=Host(`whoami.your.domain`)
      - traefik.http.routers.whoami.tls.certresolver=default

```

A more verbose one is needed when a specific port must be used or a middleware is needed, such as asking for basic authentication.

Here shown a Caddy download page that asks for the username and password defined in the dynamic configuration. 

It also doesn't use Let's Encrypt and will serve Traefik's default certificate, as the machine this configuration is pulled from is running behind Cloudflare. 

```
version: '3.7'

services:
  private-caddy:
    image: abiosoft/caddy:php
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./srv:/srv
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.private-caddy.entryPoints=web-secure
      - traefik.http.routers.private-caddy.rule=Host(`private.your.domain`)
      - traefik.http.routers.private-caddy.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.private-caddy.middlewares=auth@file
      - traefik.http.services.private-caddy.loadbalancer.server.port=2015
```