Alpine :: Traefik Labels

Run Traefik Labels based on Alpine Linux. Small, lightweight, secure and fast 🏔️

What can I do with this? Simply put: It will export any traefik labels on a container on the same host as this image runs to a Redis instance. This makes it possible for a centralized Traefik load balancer to update endpoints dynamically by utilizing the docker labels, just like you would on a local installation of Traefik with labels. It is meant as an alternative and simple way to proxy requests from a Traefik load balanacer to multiple docker nodes running in different networks and locations.

In order to use this image, you need to setup Traefik with a Redis provider and then point this image via REDIS_URL to the same Redis instance. Each entry will have an expire timer set in Redis, so that if a container is removed by a server crashing, Redis will automatically remove stale entries as well. Entries are refreshed every 60 seconds or on all docker container events (create, run, kill, stop, restart, ...).

Run

This will export all labels from all containers to the Redis instance specified in LABELS_REDIS_URL from the same host this container is running on.

docker run --name traefik-labels \
  -v /run/docker.sock:/run/docker.sock \
  -e LABELS_REDIS_URL="rediss://foo:bar@10.127.198.254:6379/0" \
  -d 11notes/traefik-labels:[tag]

This is a demo webserver that will start on :8080, all the traefik labels will be exportet to the Redis instance. They follow the exact same syntax as for normal Redis and Traefik, just as labels.

docker run --name demo \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -l "traefik/http/routers/demo.domain.com/service=demo.domain.com" \
  -l "traefik/http/routers/demo.domain.com/rule=Host(`demo.domain.com`)" \
  -l "traefik/http/routers/demo.domain.com/tls=true" \
  -l "traefik/http/routers/demo.domain.com/entrypoints=https" \
  -l "traefik/http/services/demo.domain.com/loadbalancer/servers/0/url=http://fqdn-of-docker-node:8080" \
  -d 11notes/nginx:stable

Defaults

Parameter	Value	Description
`user`	docker	user docker
`uid`	1000	user id 1000
`gid`	1000	group id 1000
`home`	/labels	home directory of user docker

Environment

Parameter	Value	Default
`LABELS_REDIS_URL`	the redis URL to connect, use rediss:// for SSL	redis:://localhost:6379/0
`LABELS_INTERVAL`	in what interval container information is pulled	300
`LABELS_TIMEOUT`	how many seconds after an interval the keys should stay till they expire	30

Parent image

11notes/node:stable

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Tips

Only use rootless container runtime (podman, rootless docker)
Don't bind to ports < 1024 (requires root), use NAT/reverse proxy (haproxy, traefik, nginx)
Do not access docker.sock as root