Mutual Authentication in Docker

Traefik Traefik v2
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In the instructions for tls options I only saw the following for docker

traefik.http.routers.router0.tls.options=foobar

I was wondering how do I set up mutual authentication?

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Hello @trajano,

Mutual Authentication can be configured via tls.options:
https://docs.traefik.io/v2.0/https/tls/#mutual-authentication

Those TLS options can then be applied to a router.

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thanks but I am trying to figure out how to do it using the Docker labels. Now that the beta is out there should be something around here https://docs.traefik.io/v2.0/https/tls/#client-authentication-mtls

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Still no luck, I tried

 traefik.http.routers.intranet.tls.options="clientAuth.clientAuthType=RequireAnyClientCert"
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I simply set up the configuration needed in a .toml file:

[tls.options]
  [tls.options.client]
    [tls.options.client.clientAuth]
      caFiles = ["/etc/traefik/sslca/basic.pem"]
      clientAuthType = "RequireAndVerifyClientCert"

and then used a docker label to reference the config:

      - "traefik.http.routers.myrouter.tls.options=client@file"

works like a charm.

HTH!

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Thanks totally forgot about this question, but you and I ended up with the same solution that I used in Trajano base Docker swarm stacks

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What is client@file ? where this come from ? i don't understand your solution

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