Is this the BEST Reverse Proxy for Docker? // Traefik Tutorial

Can someone explain to me how u can do this without portainer?

Thank you for this tutorial! Did you also managed to get multiple simple docker hosts controlled by traefik without using something like e.g. docker swarm?

It appears ngnix is MUCH more performant than traefik.

When hammering the server with thousands of connections... nginx is vastly faster.

Is it true, that I should add a treafik network to every stack I got in portainer to got access to use it with other containers in portainer?

Love you my, friend, like and comment done!!

Great stuff!

Bru, man hört dein Deutsch(;

You do these videos to show everyone how smart you are and couldn’t care less if anyone knows what you’re talking about.

Hello Christian,
I had a question about the routes. When I have a standalone OpenVPN server on the network and I want to route it through Traffik, it doesn't work. Do you know how to approach this problem? First of all OVPN can be accessed via TCP or UDP. I would be glad about a feedback.

Hi, if is possible it will be great an updated tutorial about docker and trafik but with cloudflare dnsChallenge. Thanks again!

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Danke Christian! Question, maybe basic, so sorry if so. So, say I deploy a Linode Linux server, then put Docker on it and install Portainer to manage the docker. Then I run through this tutorial to put a get Traefix setup as a container. How can I put Portainer behind Traefik? Or do I need to? Thanks again

Traefik is ridiciously hard to use, feels like a 2nd job and expect problems at every step, at every container.

Christian, I really love these tutorials, I only mis a few topics here for traefik.

These are:
Access list
External application (via dynamic yml file)

Hope you can address these maybe in a next video. Keep up the good work!

Btw I’m running traefik now thanks to your latest nginx “little projects” video. Cost me 6 days because the traefik config file cannot handle tabs but only spaces…. Yeah😂

Did you also install Portainer with Traefik? I wonder because you use it in the video but you didn't show how you installed it.

after watching this video removing traefic container and moving back to nginxproxymanger.

Compered to NPM this is a pretty complicated install but worth doing for some considering NPM has some issues.
Nice work sir, one day I will take the time to learn how to do this, for now I will stick with NPM.

You’re great at explaining things but horrible at showing step by step. I’ve been going through your videos for 2 days trying to make a reverse proxy in either docker or proxmox and none of your videos help. Somehow you’re using VSCode, not explaining where that file needs to be. Am I supposed to make directories? Again I can follow what you’re saying but you’re step by step execution on screen doesn’t translate.

nah, npm.

hi Christian thanks for the great content i follow the tutorial but unfortunately i got error 404 page not found and i did the || label but got same error

Thanks for the video =)

Managed to setup Traefik with a bunch of other containers (e.g. portainer, pihole) by watching this video.

Nice

I have issues trying to get ssl to work
how would you do the lettsencrypt crts

Thanks for this excellent video. I watch it at speed rate of 0,75 to follow it. 😁
But it is interesting actually and I want also apply this for my TrueNas server.

Hi. You helped me a lot in getting to know traefik. However, I need help with nextcloud, specifically nextcloudpi on docker. After setting everything up. I'm getting an Internal Server Error on the page.

Im following the steps described in the video and Im getting "command traefik error: yaml: line 41: did not find expected key" not matter what I change. I even modified the volumes based off @christian github and still getting same results. :(

Hi Christian, it possible to use Trafik to reverse proxy to other servers in the LAN outside the docker container?

Hi @christian Thanks for the amazing tutorial. For some odd reason my traefik is not coming up. I did a tcpdump to check on it. I see the traffic coming in and out of the machine, however nothing displays. Although I have to say in my tcpdump am having a length of 0

🤓🤓🙌🔥🤝

Is there a GUI tool to manipulate traefik?Just like the way nginx proxy manager fucntion

Best explanation I’ve found. Instant subscribe!

thank you

I started reading the traefik documentation and now I'm crying help

Would you also make a video about WSO2?

What a relief... you just made my week (already on a sunday evening). Struggled a lot last week with Traefik and CertBot and it's all working now. I only have to wait for a week before I can get my production certificate ;) (rate limit from last week, where CertBot is requesting a certificate every time Traefik is starting). Thanks a lot for your great work!

Thank you for your videos. This just a suggestion. It would be easier to follow and more enjoyable if you could speak slower. You speak so fast that your breathing sounds heavy when you catch your breath. If you're concerned about the video being too long, simply break it into parts and label each part with its corresponding order: 1, 2 3 etc. Thank you.

Really one of the best guides on this subject. Thanks! Would love to see a way to secure the traefik dash natively (without teleport)

Cheers Christain, I have recently forced myself to build up my Home lab and your videos are absolutely amazing. I dont normally leave a comment but Traefik has been a bit of a mind melting beast so i thought I need to share my appreciation here :p

I thought it was replacing the portainer. To me it's useless and unnecessarily complicated. I stay with Portainer + Nginx Proxy Manager, I can assign a subdomain to a container in 15 seconds and a few clicks.

I noticed the github repository shows a git clone option but has not much information about how to run that.
Is there a way to install this without using docker, or kubernetes? I followed your video for nginx reverse proxy in the past. Now that manager has caused a lot of problems and cant for the life of me get it fixed and want to just throw it away honestly.

If Traefik lets me define all my domains and targets in a config file that I could commit to Git and reproduce with one click, then I'm sold. Need to read up on this. Thanks for the introduction.

Super useful.
Thanks man !!

I have a question related to using traefik with kubernetes. So at home I have a k3s cluster with 2 raspis where i would like to run some application ans theres also a Synology NAS which exposes some services aswell.
I'm quite new to the whole networking stuff so I'm trying to figure out how to setup traefik the best way. If its setup inside kubernetes for example would it still be possible to route incomming traffic to other machines in the network such as the NAS?

No it sucks, use HA-Proxy!

Question, does Traefik need to be on the same server as the
docker containers running the apps?

In my setup, I have docker running on several computers , and having a single instance of Traefik proxying connections for the services on multiple computers instead of Traefik installed on each one would require less management overhead.

This is a perfect tutorial and speed, thanks dude. You hit the important points quickly. Too many tutorials and overviews are 30-60+ minutes. Not sure who has that kind of time to watch. Usually we’re trying to quickly solve a problem. We may not need to become an Uber infrastructure expert, but need to learn enough quickly to solve problems and know where to keep ourselves out of trouble. Thanks again!

Very good video and tutorial. I have a pfsense router in front of my Truescale server. so now I am confused wherethe reverse proxy should be configured and how to do that and still pass traffic through the pfsense router. Can you help / or do another video as this is a very common setup and confusing where the certificates all go. I would like to use a wild card certificate on both the Pfsense and Truescale servers

So, I didn't get the overall architecture of the solution from the video... What containers are involved? Where traefik should be present: should it exist only in a container or outside web server has to be used as well? What is the role of traefik: is it a standalone solution, or just a UI wrapper for raw configuration files? How nginx and traefik have to communicate with each other, too many questions to understand something...
P.S. And also, I don't think, that using the same tool as a reverse proxy and load balancer is the best idea due to different tasks they are intended to solve. As usual, the tool, developed entirely for solving only one specific task allows for better flexibility and tuning. In particular, I'm not sure, that it's easy (is possible at all) to tune up load balancing strategies in this case...