Traefik

Background This is some progress for part of a side/pet project over months that I failed to achieved before with Docker Desktop on WSL The objective was to create a local Kubernetes cluster for testing out some CI/CD as close as possible to a production system (not on infrastructure and networking…

Before we start configuring Traefik we need to install required packages. Traefik has a web interface secured by Basicauth for which we need to generate a password. For this we need the tool htpasswd apt install apache2-utils Next we can start creating the necessary configuration files. In the near future…

Traefik is an edge-router, used for load-balancing, reverse proxying, and deploying micro-services in a cloud-native environment, giving providers for different services such as Docker and Kubernetes. I discovered this when I was searching for reverse-proxy solutions that would allow me to use a single domain name and create sub-domains for…

“Checkmk provides powerful monitoring of networks, servers, clouds, containers and applications. Fast. Effective.” That said, I’m exploring checkmk with hopes, that it’s easier to setup than a stack of Prometheus, Cadvisor, Grafana, and Loki, and that it’s more powerful than Uptime Kuma. The goal is to run checkmk from a…

Why you might need a reverse proxy server? The need of introducing a reverse proxy to a docker/docker-compose config is quite popular. Some common use-cases are: routing inbound traffic to the right container in multi-container environments (heavily used by me in PHP refactoring projects using the strangler pattern), ex. route the request to the right web servers terminate…

What is Traefik? It’s a reverse proxy designed to work with Docker. It allows you to proxy services in containers in a very simple and declarative way. At first you might be intimidated by labels, but you will get used to it 🙂 Why Traefik and not nginx, for example…

This post shows you how to configure Gitlab SSO using Keycloak as SAML 2.0 IdP. Keycloak and Gitlab are both behind Traefik reverse proxy. Traefik Add ssh entry point to Traefik configuration (see previous post for basic setup) to route ssh access to Gitlab. …

Intro When I created my first droplet at DigitalOcean, I needed a service discovery. At that time I had no idea how to deal with it. Eventually, I went for Nginx. But not knowing the concept, syntax, the workaround I was having a difficult time. Then I discovered nginx-proxy which made…