Label vs YML Config Setup

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The dynamic configuration cannot be define in the static configuration.

Those notions are exactly the same as v1:

The main difference between v1 and v2 about dynamic configuration (outside the content of the configuration) is the capability to reference an element from a provider into another provider. We call that: provider namespace

The goal of Traefik is to manage automatically configuration in a context where containers can appears and disappears (micro-service infrastructure by example), so I recommend to use labels instead of file for Docker based infrastructure.

The file provider, for routers and services, is mainly made for old infrastructure (non-container based) so once again I recommend to not use the file provider to define routers for Docker based infrastructure.

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