# Traefik
This is one of the best reverse-proxy solutions for self-hosting.
Very easy to run & maintain (once you pass the setup).
Traefik can detect docker services and use docker labels to automatically create routes.
However, I prefer to keep my docker-compose files clean and explicitly set routers & services myself, so this solution does that exactly.
Traefik can also be set-up to automatically provide Let's Encrypt certs for your services.
However, there are some services that need cert files (AdGuard Home, Mailcow), and because I want to have a single wildcard certificate for my whole domain (and all subdomains) I prefer to generate it manually (i.e. scripts in cron) and just reference it whenever it's required - so this setup reflects that.
## General overview
Traefik has 2 types of config: static (requires restart of the container) and dynamic (refreshes live).
Dynamic config can be provided as a folder, where all `yml` files are parsed and configuration from them is applied to the running server.
You can create multiple files and split the dynamic config to your preference. I prefer to keep the 2 main layers (routers & services) separate, as it's easy for me to structure the files and it's clear to see what services are defined and the ports that they use. The down-side is that adding/removing a service requires editing 2 files.
Another approach would be to use 1 yaml file per service (with route & service definition). It would be clearer from the Filesystem (ls -al) to see what services are configured, but e.g. checking all ports would require viewing all config files.
For that reason it's also good to keep a note somewhere with a table of service-port mapping.
- [Homepage](https://traefik.io/)
- [Github repo](https://github.com/traefik)
- [Docs](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/)
## docker-compose.yml
```yml
version: '3'
services:
traefik:
image: traefik:v2.3
container_name: traefik
restart: unless-stopped
security_opt: ["no-new-privileges"]
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
- "3080:8080"
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /path/to/certs:/certs:ro
- ./config:/config:ro
- ./traefik.yml:/traefik.yml:ro
```
## Static config
### traefik.yml
```yml
global:
checkNewVersion: true
sendAnonymousUsage: false
api:
dashboard: true
insecure: true
entryPoints:
http:
address: ":80"
https:
address: ":443"
serversTransport:
insecureSkipVerify: true
providers:
file:
directory: /config
watch: true
```
## Dynamic config
### config/middlewares.yml
```yml
http:
middlewares:
authelia:
forwardAuth:
address: http://:9091/api/verify?rd=https://login.example.com/
trustForwardHeader: true
redirect-to-https:
redirectScheme:
scheme: https
permanent: true
security-headers:
headers:
referrerPolicy: "same-origin"
contentTypeNosniff: true
frameDeny: false
forceSTSHeader: true
stsIncludeSubdomains: true
stsPreload: true
stsSeconds: 15552000
nextcloud-redirectregex:
redirectRegex:
permanent: true
regex: 'https://(.*)/.well-known/(card|cal)dav'
replacement: 'https://${1}/remote.php/dav/'
some-redirect:
redirectRegex:
regex: "https://subdomain1.example.com/"
replacement: "https://subdomain2.example.com?query=123"
permanent: true
```
### config/tls.yml
```yml
tls:
certificates:
- certFile: /example1-com/fullchain.cer
keyFile: /example1-com/example1.com.key
stores:
- default
- certFile: /example2-com/fullchain.cer
keyFile: /example2-com/example2.com.key
stores:
- default
stores:
default:
defaultCertificate:
certFile: /example1-com/fullchain.cer
keyFile: /example1-com/example1.com.key
```
### config/routers.yml
```yml
http:
routers:
authelia:
rule: "Host(`login.example.com`)"
service: authelia
tls: {}
middlewares:
- security-headers
nextcloud:
rule: "Host(`cloud.example.com`)"
service: nextcloud
tls: {}
middlewares:
- security-headers
- nextcloud-redirectregex
sonarr:
rule: "Host(`sonarr.example.com`)"
service: sonarr
tls: {}
middlewares:
- security-headers
- authelia
```
### config/services.yml
```yml
http:
services:
authelia:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: "http://:9091"
nextcloud:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: "http://:3100"
sonarr:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: "http://:8989/"
```
## Useful links
- [Traefik 2 + Docker — a Simple Step by Step Guide](https://medium.com/@containeroo/traefik-2-0-docker-a-simple-step-by-step-guide-e0be0c17cfa5#37d9)
- [Traefik 2 + Docker — an Advanced Guide](https://medium.com/@containeroo/traefik-2-0-docker-an-advanced-guide-d098b9e9be96)
- [Traefik 2 & TLS 101](https://containo.us/blog/traefik-2-tls-101-23b4fbee81f1/)
- [check security headers](https://securityheaders.com)