traefik-kop VS richardsoper.me

Traefik gives you a lot of options to accomplish this, you can use docker swarm, move to kubernetes or use any of their discovery providers. These options were rather complicated solutions for what I needed, so I decided to look around for other alternatives. Here I found Traefik-Kop, but it I still had to do a lot of manual work and open a different port for each container I wanted to be accesible through my reverse proxy.

The obvious solution is docker swarm/kubernetes, but if you don't want to go all the way there yet I can really recommend traefik kop. Very simple to setup, you just add a redis service next to the traefik instance and set it up as a provider, then you run traefik kop on every other machine, pointed at that redis service. Traefik kop will discover docker services on the machine and write everything to redis and it'll get picked up ny traefik. Worked like a charm!

Maybe this can help you https://github.com/jittering/traefik-kop

Also, if you'd like to use this as a reference point to investigate on your own I have my GitHub repo with a docker swarm cluster available that is deployed and working right now.

Reddit hates me whenever I try to paste file contents into comments, but if you wanted to take a look my config is all stored here. In services/traefik.yml and traefik/traefik.yml specifically for the proxy related configs.

I have a file based config for my raspberry Pi running pihole. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

Here is one of the config files I use to route on my server VLAN: https://github.com/rsoper/richardsoper.me/blob/master/traefik/conf/homeassistant.yml

I haven't done a Portainer first or Portainer-centric deployment, but I have used Traefik quite a lot in the last few years, including a LAN whitelist, and integration with CloudFlare. Not sure how far along you are on using Traefik, but Ive got it all posted to GitHub if you have any interest in poking around or have any questions.