Digitalocean

Intro

TLS is must, but do you wanna generate a own Certificate for each Service you Provide ? Specially, when you have a *.domain.tld Record set ?

Trafik is able to handle that for you. Let’s Encrypt offers the possibility to use DNS Validation for Wildcard Domains. Here is a list of Providers that can automate DNS Verfication.

Helpful URL

• https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/user-guides/docker-compose/acme-dns/
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-traefik-v2-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-docker-containers-on-ubuntu-20-04
• https://www.carluccio.de/reverse-proxy-traefik-mit-wildcard-zertifikaten/
• https://linuxblog.xyz/posts/traefik-2-docker-compose/
• https://medium.com/@KagundaJM/proxy-buffalo-app-with-traefik-and-lets-encrypt-on-digitalocean-505060edef4c

Fully Example with Docker Compose, Traefik, Digital Ocean

Prepare Env

cd /where/ever/you/want
mkdir data
touch data/acme.json

Variables

we need a few Variables. Let’s put them in a .env file and docker-compose will use them when called.