homelab/traefik

Traefik reverse proxy with automatic wildcard SSL from cloudflare

First create a docker network called "proxy" usig the following command:

docker network create proxy

This is the network that traefik and all other containers that need to be automatically configured in traefik should use.

Make directories in your homefolder like so:

• ~/traefik
  • compose.yml
  • data
    • acme.json # make sure to change permissions of this file with chmod 600 acme.json
    • config.yml
    • traefik.yml

Use mkdir to make the folders and touch to create the json and yml files

Basically:

mkdir traefik

cd traefik

touch compose.yml

mkdir data

cd data

touch acme.json

chmod 600 acme.json

touch config.yml

touch traefik.yml

The contents to put inside those files are given here. Except for acme.json, which will be automatically generated.

How to generate a hashed password to put in the compose.yml file

• First install apache2-utils

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2-utils

• Next generate your hashed password with the following command

echo $(htpasswd -nB USER) | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g

- Replace USER with your username
- Enter a password when it prompts
- Copy paste the generated hashed password into the compose.yml file