Use https://traefik.me SSL certificates for local HTTPS without having to touch your /etc/hosts or your certificate CA.

Introduction

In my various dev cycles and continuing activities, I run many servers on docker containers. This repo takes Michael Pyrou's traefik.me (http://traefik.me/) and creates a docker container set that provides http and https servers with valid certificates.

The files were taken from his Gist at https://gist.github.com/pyrou/4f555cd55677331c742742ee6007a73a

Once running, you can connect to the dashboard at https://traefik.traefik.me/dashboard/#/

Posted this solution to https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/170lf0c/home_self_hosting_ssl_certificates/

Deploying

Clone the repository:

    git clone git@github.com:edguy3/traefik.me.git

Start up to start the service and get the certificates. When that finishes, start the containers.

    docker compose up reverse-proxy-https-helper && docker compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f

Or, utilize the Makefile.

    make up

To test:

1. Open https://app1.traefik.me/ in your browser.
2. Then open http://app1.traefik.me/ and
3. https://traefik.traefik.me to confirm both app instances are reachable.

You'll probably want to edit out app2

  app2:
    image: containous/whoami
    labels:
      - "traefik.http.routers.app1.rule=Host(`app2.traefik.me`)"

In your application docker-compose.yaml file and add something like this to your file. ( or the docker-compose.override.yml file.)

  my_local_app:
    labels:
      - "traefik.http.routers.app1.rule=Host(`amazing.traefik.me`)"

The my_local_app service is now exposed at https://amazing.traefik.me .

Author

Original version: Michael Pyrou

Ed Guy, edguy@eguy.org adapted gist into repo. (Really only made a few changes.)