Can I use Traefik without a domain name?

[langston-barrett]

I am a developer of mantl. We use Traefik in our stack, but we don't have a bunch of domain names lying around for our devs to use for testing. Is it possible to use Traefik (especially with Marathon backend) without a domain name?

What I'd like is to be able to do something like

curl http://<marathon-service>.<my-edge-node-ip>

and have it work.

One workaround is to set your domain to example.com and do something like

echo '<my-edge-node-ip> example.com' >> /etc/hosts

but this feels like a hack. I'd rather not require users to modify their environment because they don't own a domain name.

[emilevauge]

@siddharthist yes you can :)
For example, you can use labels defined http://docs.traefik.io/toml/#marathon-backend on an app to modify its route: traefik.frontend.rule=PathPrefixStrip:/test will route every requests made on /test to this app.
If you need that for all you applications, you can also provide a custom template, here is the default template used: https://github.com/containous/traefik/blob/master/templates/marathon.tmpl

[langston-barrett]

@emilevauge Thanks for taking the time to fill me in! I'll probably make another issue when I can't figure it out 😜