charliecano / dockerize-traefik

Traefik reverse proxy inside a container.

Dockerize Traefik

This project was heavily influenced by this tutorial and this project.

Note: Since the time that the above mentioned resources were authored, Traefik has undergone a huge change from 1.7 to 2.0. Virtually everything about Traefik configuration changed in this major version update. Be sure to read Traefik's documentation and look closely at the docker-compose.yml file in this project.

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• A domain provided by Cloudflare
• A linux box to deploy to ;)

Up and Running

1. Create a directory that will serve as the home for your docker services.

   mkdir ~/docker && cd ~/docker

2. Clone this repo into the newly created directory as "traefik".

   git clone https://github.com/sonofborge/dockerize-traefik.git traefik && cd traefik

3. Create .env file and modify the variables to fit your needs.

   cp .env-example .env
   vim .env

   # Example: .env file
   
   CF_API_KEY=mycloudflareapikey
   CF_API_EMAIL=[e-mail]
   DOMAIN_NAME=domain.com

4. Generate a user/password hash with htpasswd and store the output in config/usersfile.

   htpasswd -nB $USER

5. Create "acme.json" and restrict file permissions.

   touch letsencrypt/acme.json && chmod 600 letsencrypt/acme.json

6. Create the docker network.

   docker network create traefik_proxy

7. Spin up the service.

   docker-compose up -d

   For troubleshooting and logging, run the following command:

   tail -f log/accessLog.txt
   tail -v log/traefik.log

If all went well, you should now have a traefik reverse proxy all set up!