Traefik Configuration

Welcome to my very first Traefik configuration! I've got some things that you need to manage your web traffic, including routers, middlewares, and TLS.

Routers: Keep Your Traffic Flowing

To ensure a seamless user experience, I've set up the following routers:

• Dashboard: Manage your traffic like a pro with Traefik's user-friendly dashboard.
• Cat app: Let users access your cat app.
• Whoami: Check that your configurations are working smoothly with this useful tool.
• Prometheus: Monitor your traffic and gather key insights with this powerful tool.
• Grafana: Get a comprehensive overview of your web traffic metrics and stay ahead of the game.
• Custom error page: Keep your users engaged even when things go wrong with a custom error page.

Middlewares: Take Your Traffic Management to the Next Level

My middlewares provide the following features to take your traffic management to the next level:

• Basic Auth (admin:admin): Keep your content secure with basic authentication.
• Rate limit: Prevent server overload by setting limits on the number of requests.
• Custom error page: Engage your users even when something goes wrong with a custom error page.
• Compress: Make your website load faster and reduce bandwidth usage.

TLS: Secure Your Traffic

I'm using Let's Encrypt with DNS challenge and Cloudflare API to ensure your traffic is always secure.

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Configuration

Ready to get started? Here's what you need to do:

Clone the Repo

Clone my repo with this command:

git clone https://github.com/behnambm/traefik.git

Env File

Create a file named .compose.env and store your Cloudflare API key (Global API Key) with the following format:

CF_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY
CF_API_EMAIL=YOUR_EMAIL@MAIL.COM

Don't forget to set an A record pointing to your domain in Cloudflare. Make sure it's a wildcard record, e.g., *.example.com.

Host Name

Some files, like docker-compose.yml and dynamic.yml, require you to change the host name to your own.

Create acme file

touch configs/letsencrypt/acme.json

chmod 600 configs/letsencrypt/acme.json

Run

Start Traefik with the following command:

docker compose up -d

To check for any errors, run the following command:

docker compose logs traefik

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Screenshots

Traefik dashboard

Prometheus

Grafana

And that's it! Your web traffic is now under your control with Traefik. Thanks for checking out my configuration!