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August 27th, 2024 10:40 AM Mr. Q Categories: Docker

Traefik is a powerful and flexible reverse proxy that makes it easy to manage and route traffic to various services in a Docker environment. Whether you’re hosting services locally or managing external resources, Traefik’s dynamic configuration capabilities allow you to effortlessly connect and secure your services. In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of adding an external service to your Traefik setup, demonstrating how to route traffic to a service running on a remote server and make it accessible through a custom domain. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a robust and secure connection to your external service, all managed seamlessly by Traefik.

1. Update dynamic.yml

You need to add a new service and router for the external service in your dynamic.yml file.

http:

  middlewares:
    # Existing middlewares here...

    # Other middlewares...

  services:
    external-service:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080"
        passHostHeader: true

  routers:
    # Existing routers here...

    external-router:
      rule: Host(`example.com`)
      entryPoints:
        - websecure
      middlewares:
        - TBA-headers
        - TBA-whitelist
        - TBA-compress
      service: external-service
      tls:
        certResolver: lets-encrypt

2. Update traefik.yml

Ensure that the file provider is properly configured to watch for changes in the dynamic.yml file. No changes are needed here if it’s configured correctly, but make sure that:

• The filename in the file provider points to dynamic.yml.
• The watch option is set to true.

providers:
  file:
    filename: dynamic.yml
    watch: true

3. Verify and Restart

After updating & validating the files:

1. Check the Configuration: Make sure there are no syntax errors or issues in the YAML files.
2. Restart Traefik: Apply the changes by restarting the Traefik service.

You can restart Traefik with the following Docker command:

docker-compose restart traefik

This setup will ensure that requests to ai.qbytesworld.com will be routed to 92.68.10.58:8080 through Traefik, with proper TLS configuration and middleware handling.