Traefik as Reverse Proxy with Docker on Raspberry Pi

docker-compose.yml

services:
  traefik:
    image: traefik:v2.10
    container_name: traefik
    restart: unless-stopped
    command:
      - "--api=true"
      - "--api.insecure=true"
      - "--providers.file.directory=/etc/traefik/dynamic"
      - "--providers.docker=true"
      - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "8080:8080" # Traefik dashboard (optional)
    volumes:
      - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
      - "./config:/etc/traefik/dynamic"
    networks:
      - your-network

networks:
  your-network:
    name: your-network

example-service-config.yml

# This exposes an example service called "dummy" hosted as another docker container (under port 8080), with the name "dummy" under the path "raspberrypi5.local/dummy"
# It needs to be part of the same "your-network" Docker network!
# This file needs to sit in "config" folder (relative to where the docker-compose.yml is) - or modify docker-compose.yml accordingly

http:
  routers:
    dummy:
      rule: "Host(`raspberrypi5.local`) && PathPrefix(`/dummy`)"
      service: "dummy"

  services:
    dummy:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "http://dummy:8080"

justfile

rpi_user := "your_rpi_user"
rpi_hostname := "your_rpi_hostname_or_ip"

# Copy all the files (excluding MD, png) to /home/pi/traefik
deploy:
    rsync -avh --inplace --no-perms --exclude '*.MD' --exclude '*.png' ./* {{rpi_user}}@{{rpi_hostname}}:/home/pi/traefik/

# Start the service
start:
    ssh {{rpi_user}}@{{rpi_hostname}} 'cd traefik && docker compose up -d --build'

# Stop the service
stop:
    ssh {{rpi_user}}@{{rpi_hostname}} 'cd traefik && docker compose down'

# Display Docker logs for service
log service:
    ssh {{rpi_user}}@{{rpi_hostname}} 'docker logs -f traefik'