Reverse proxy setup for local development using Docker and Traefik.

Requirements

You should have a working Docker setup with docker-compose included. See https://docs.docker.com for details.

Setup

docker network create traefik
docker-compose up -d

Usage

To enable the local reverse proxy for your project on a custom domain, you have to add a few labels and the traefik network to the container you want to expose.

Here is a basic docker-compose.yml example on how to configure the reverse proxy on the domain domain.example:

version: '2.4'
services:
  example:
    image: nginx
    labels:
      - "traefik.docker.network=traefik"
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.example.rule=Host(`domain.example`)"
    networks:
      - default
      - traefik

For further information on the labels, see the official Traefik documentation: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/providers/docker/

Do not forget to add domain.example to your local DNS server or your hosts file to resolve to localhost.