In this article we will see how to configure traefik to use https and configure middlewares for having a quite good security rank on SSLLabs. This is mandatory if you plan to exposes your services on the Internet. This article directly follows Using traefik for deploying your first service and will use docker-compose file definitions we used back then. For this article we will need a few things A domain name Read more...

Traefik is a modern reverse proxy that integrates with container technologies and related orchestrators. In our case we’re going to use it’s docker integration. Traefik uses docker socket to retrieve information about running containers, and labels that are attached to it. (if you use docker inspect you would get the idea.) This article requires that you are already familiar with container thechnology and especially docker. Disclaimer: This article is not meant to secure your services, it is a pretty basic setup to start with traefik, if you want to secure your services head to the next article of this series Read more...

When setting up my homelab, I encountered a pretty weird issue related to my Internet Provider Router box. Using the same address for accessing my website on local network and external network. This is to simplify and configure services with external http addresses rather than local one. Because external ones probably wont change that much over time. And if I use a laptop both in and out I prefer my bookmarks to remain the same Read more...