How do I setup multiple Traefiks, with one domain, and one external IP

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Hello everyone, I'm trying to have a setup where I can have an ingress Traefik instance that redirects to a specific Traefik instance on another server in the LAN, using one domain and with a docker setup on multiple hosts, so no Kubernetes.

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The problem is that the Ingress Traefik does not have a way to know to which Traefik instance redirect a request since all the instances use the same domain, the only way is to manually have each subdomain in a file provider, but my objective is to have a docker provider on each instance and then have the Ingress Traefik figure out somehow how to deal with incoming requests so I don't have to maintain a manual list of subdomains, is this possible?

Bonus question: How can I share the certificate between all the instances since it is a wildcard certificate?

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You could just use Docker Swarm to connect the nodes to a common Docker network, then you only need one Traefik instance. See undocumented simple Traefik Swarm example.

If you want multi-level Traefik, you need to make up your mind first how you want to use TLS. Ingress needs to have a cert to be able to use Host() or HostSNI() to match the URL and forward it accordingly. I would use Ingress Traefik to terminate TLS, so have LetsEncrypt there, then only forward decrypted http requests to the other instances.

I am pretty sure I created an example docker-compose.yml of chained Traefik here (or on Docker forum), but I can't find it, too many posts created :smile:

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Found the config :slight_smile:, to be used with docker stack deploy:

version: '3.9'

networks:
  proxy-ext:
    name: proxy-ext
    driver: overlay
    attachable: true
  proxy-int:
    name: proxy-int
    driver: overlay
    attachable: true


volumes:
  traefik-certificates:


services:
  traefik-ext:
    image: traefik:v2.10
    hostname: '{{.Node.Hostname}}'
    ports:
      - target: 80
        published: 80
        protocol: tcp
        mode: host
      - target: 443
        published: 443
        protocol: tcp
        mode: host
    networks:
      - proxy-ext
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - traefik-certificates:/certificates
    command:
      - --providers.docker=true
      - --providers.docker.swarmMode=true
      - --providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false
      - --providers.docker.network=proxy-ext
      - --providers.docker.constraints=Label(`traefik.ext`,`true`)
      - --entryPoints.web.address=:80
      - --entryPoints.web.http.redirections.entryPoint.to=websecure
      - --entryPoints.web.http.redirections.entryPoint.scheme=https
      - --entryPoints.websecure.address=:443
      - --entryPoints.websecure.http.tls=true
      - --entryPoints.websecure.http.tls.certResolver=myresolver
      - --api.debug=true
      - --api.dashboard=true
      - --log.level=DEBUG
      - --accesslog=true
      - --certificatesResolvers.myresolver.acme.email=me@example.com
      - --certificatesResolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/certificates/acme.json
      - --certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.tlschallenge=true
    deploy:
      mode: global
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role==manager
      labels:
        - traefik.ext=true
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-ext.entrypoints=websecure
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-ext.rule=Host(`traefik-ext.example.com`)
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-ext.service=api@internal
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-ext.middlewares=auth-ext
        - 'traefik.http.middlewares.auth-ext.basicauth.users=test:$$apr1$$H6uskkkW$$IgXLP6ewTrSuBkTrqE8wj/'
        - traefik.http.services.dummy-svc.loadbalancer.server.port=9999


  traefik-int:
    image: traefik:v2.10
    hostname: '{{.Node.Hostname}}'
    networks:
      - proxy-ext
      - proxy-int
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    command:
      - --providers.docker=true
      - --providers.docker.swarmMode=true
      - --providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false
      - --providers.docker.network=proxy-int
      - --providers.docker.constraints=Label(`traefik.int`,`true`)
      - --entryPoints.web.address=:80
      - --entryPoints.web.forwardedHeaders.insecure=true
      - --api.debug=true
      - --api.dashboard=true
      - --log.level=DEBUG
      - --accesslog=true
    deploy:
      mode: global
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role==manager
      labels:
        - traefik.ext=true
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-int.entrypoints=websecure
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-int.rule=Host(`traefik-int.example.com`)
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-int.service=api@internal
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-int.middlewares=auth-int
        - 'traefik.http.middlewares.auth-int.basicauth.users=test:$$apr1$$H6uskkkW$$IgXLP6ewTrSuBkTrqE8wj/'
        - traefik.http.services.dummy-svc.loadbalancer.server.port=9999
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-fwd.entrypoints=websecure
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-fwd.rule=PathPrefix(`/`)
        - traefik.http.routers.traefik-fwd.service=fwd
        - traefik.http.services.fwd.loadbalancer.server.port=80



  whoami-ext:
    hostname: '{{.Node.Hostname}}'
    image: traefik/whoami:v1.10
    networks:
      - proxy-ext
    deploy:
      mode: global
      labels:
        - traefik.ext=true
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.http.routers.whoami-ext.entrypoints=websecure
        - traefik.http.routers.whoami-ext.rule=Host(`whoami-ext.example.com`)
        - traefik.http.services.whoami-ext.loadbalancer.server.port=80


  whoami-int:
    hostname: '{{.Node.Hostname}}'
    image: traefik/whoami:v1.10
    networks:
      - proxy-int
    deploy:
      mode: global
      labels:
        - traefik.int=true
        - traefik.enable=true
        - traefik.http.routers.whoami-int.entrypoints=web
        - traefik.http.routers.whoami-int.rule=Host(`whoami-int.example.com`)
        - traefik.http.services.whoami-int.loadbalancer.server.port=80
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@bluepuma77 Can you explain what "hostname: '{{.Node.Hostname}}'" does or link me to documentation on that? I don't even know what to call that to search for myself.

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It will set the hostname within the container to the hostname of the parent node (doc). So the container "knows" which host it is on.

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