Traefik

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Traefik is a reverse proxy and load balancer designed to sit in front of microservice deployments and route traffic to the right services automatically. It is aimed at teams running dynamic...

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continuous configuration updates
multiple load balancing algorithms
HTTPS with Let's Encrypt
circuit breakers
retries
web UI
WebSocket/HTTP/2/gRPC support
metrics
access logs
REST API

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Last Updated: Oct 30, 2026
Created: Sep 13, 2015
Install Methods: dockerbinarysource
Requirements: DockerKubernetesConsulEtcdRancher v2Amazon ECS
API: REST
Runtime / Stack: GoDocker
Privacy & Independence: Cloud: Optional
Deployment: Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers

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Run Traefik with Docker Compose

Compose file from the Traefik project repository.

2 services · infra: traefik

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (2 volumes)

docs/content/user-guides/docker-compose/acme-dns/docker-compose.yml · @ 29406d4 · scanned Jun 4, 2026

services:

  traefik:
    image: "traefik:v3.7"
    container_name: "traefik"
    command:
      #- "--log.level=DEBUG"
      - "--api.insecure=true"
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
      - "--entryPoints.web.address=:80"
      - "--entryPoints.websecure.address=:443"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.dnschallenge=true"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.dnschallenge.provider=ovh"
      #- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.caserver=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=postmaster@example.com"
      - "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - "OVH_ENDPOINT=xxx"
      - "OVH_APPLICATION_KEY=xxx"
      - "OVH_APPLICATION_SECRET=xxx"
      - "OVH_CONSUMER_KEY=xxx"
    volumes:
      - "./letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"

  whoami:
    image: "traefik/whoami"
    container_name: "simple-service"
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.rule=Host(`whoami.example.com`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.tls.certresolver=myresolver"

This file may be out of date. Check the Traefik documentation for current setup steps.

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