ironhydroxide

Can Traefik be layered?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/49624980

Can Traefik be layered? - sh.itjust.works

I’ve been selfhosting for a bit, but have never really gotten a solid understanding of Traefik. What I’d like to do is have 3 machines, 1 as an “entry point” where Traefik forwards by domain to the two other machines. Ie I route to anything.domain1.com [http://anything.domain1.com] and the entry machine forwards to machine 1, anything.domain2.com [http://anything.domain2.com] forwards to machine 2. Then on each machine have another instance of Traefik to manage the applications that machine hosts. Is this even possible? Without using docker swarm? Thanks.

Nov 11 at 6:47pmWeb
Show threadthelittleblackbirdNov 11
Yes, no problem with that
Show threaddcattNov 11

Yup, easy, just add a config with router, host rule & service specification for each machine with their respective ip as destination.

doc.traefik.io/traefik/master/…/router/

Traefik HTTP Routers Documentation - Traefik

HTTP routers are responsible for connecting incoming requests to the services that can handle them. Read the technical documentation.

Show threadstratselfNov 12
It’s entirely possible. If the 2 domains are different, you should look into SNI routing using the TCP router instead of HTTP. With the tls.passthrough flag, encryption is kept intact until it reaches the second proxy.
Show threadironhydroxideNov 13
Thank you! The sni routing and passthrough helped get me to the right pages and reading. I have a test setup running now and it’s looking hopeful.