Traefik 3 and FREE Wildcard Certificates with Docker

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In today's Traefik tutorial we'll get FREE Wildcard certificates to use in our HomeLab and with all of our internal self-hosted services. We're going to set up Traefik 3 in Docker and get Let's Encrypt certificates using Cloudflare as our DNS Provider (we'll cover how to set up others too). Then we'll configure local DNS using PiHole (or any other local DNS) to route to our services that are now protected with secure certificates!
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00:00 - Getting Wildcard Certificates with Traefik
00:54 - Monitoring with UptimeRobot (sponsor)
02:12 - Requirements
03:02 - Diagram for Visual Learners
04:11 - Traefik Docker Compose
06:12 - Docker Secrets Rant
07:30 - Explaining Traefik Compose
10:45 - Docker Container Tasks
14:59 - DNS Resolvers
16:07 - Creating Secrets
16:57 - Cloudflare API Token
19:21 - Docker Network
19:36 - Basic Auth Credentials for Traefik Dashboard
21:50 - Starting the Traefik Container
22:44 - Troubleshooting
25:17 - Traefik Dashboard Local DNS
27:03 - Viewing the Traefik Dashboard
27:57 - Getting Production Certificates from Let's Encrypt
31:08 - Creating a New Workload with Certificates
35:03 - Using Traefik for Workloads Running Outside of Docker
39:11 - Networking Considerations
Thank you for watching!

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@vatsalyavigyaverma5494 Ай бұрын

Baby, wake up techno tim uploaded about traefik. It's time to update your homelab

@andrewtfluck Ай бұрын

I felt this so hard 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@SataPataKiouta Ай бұрын

I am a simple man. I see Techno Tim , I watch , I like.

@calvinremsburg5032 Ай бұрын

I share

@CrisCheese_ Ай бұрын

I simp

@1gold4 Күн бұрын

I am finally tackling the project of my homelab again and I am so grateful to see a new video for Traefik. These types of videos are such a huge help.

@ave4687 Ай бұрын

HAHAHA you gotta be kidding me. I spent the 2 last weeks with your previous video and other resources trying to set up Traefik and the rest of my homelab. I literally closed the YT video minutes ago as I was finally able to make everything work. Before going to bed, I decided to check a video from my feed to cool down and what do I see if its not this taunting title XD. Anyway, I'll watch it later as it may allow me to enhance my fresh configuration. Thanks for that 😊

@officialcrunch Ай бұрын

Just finished your traefik series when I saw you posted this, thank you for answering my subconscious prayer 🙏🏼 Keep up the great work!

@Breeegz Ай бұрын

It's a shame that KZfaq only allows for me to like this video once. This was a big upgrade from your last "SSL Everywhere" video. Thanks for taking us on your journey.

@oildiggerlwd Ай бұрын

Greatly appreciate the little detail explanations. I’d done the wild card certs before on my home lab, but this is filling in several little knowledge holes in my mind. Excellent content

@MindMonkeyFTW Ай бұрын

I can't fathom how easy you made this process, which I have been unable to do with other tutorials. You're doing great work Tim!

@Ellwood420 Ай бұрын

Sweet, I used most of your last Traefik video (never got external access working, but internal worked just fine, and that's all I needed, really)

@romayojr Ай бұрын

this is perfect timing i just rewatched your old traefik video yesterday cuz i’m having some weird connection issues with my traefik server that i setup last year that has been working great for me. i might re-spin up my server with traefik 3 this weekend to see if resolves my issues. thanks tim!

@mitchelbone6301 Ай бұрын

Thank you. I've been meaning to do this in my homelab for some time. Now I have everything I need.

@Chefmoensch 21 күн бұрын

Everything worked and now I have TLS on all my connections to my services. Thank you Tim

@replicant_2049 2 күн бұрын

One of the best tutorials I've followed on youtube, perfect pacing and everything worked first time. Thank you!

@Crusaderzpl Ай бұрын

Thanks Tim! finally managed to get Traefik fully working in my homelab, great tutorial as always

@TheInfamousToTo Ай бұрын

compare to the last video of Traefik , i had 0 issue love how you explain things very easy and in simple way 😍

@satstube 23 күн бұрын

Had to say this... It's got to be absolutely one the best well rounded , well thought, in depth traefik install walk-throughd I have come accross thus far,.., thanks and well done Tim..

@BladeWDR Ай бұрын

Very comprehensive Tim, well done.

@rickdavidson8895 9 күн бұрын

Fantastic video. Love the section on verifying things were working.

@chrisumali9841 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the demo and info, once again super helpful documentation. Have a great day Techno Tim

@drbyte2009 Ай бұрын

Tim, you make super great video's, in one word PERFECT!!

@tazmattar Ай бұрын

This was fantastic! I was literally looking at how to do this the other day and you've come up trumps yet again. Thank you 😊

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@MrakCZ Ай бұрын

Anonymous window in browser is always the good way for testing changes.

@rx2gamingofficial 21 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for the updated tutorial. Not sure if you got my email about the last one not working but this one works now. Tip for anyone with the certs not loading: just force recreate the container and it should load. I think this happens because the first time the certs are getting created but not read, and the second time it can actually read them.

@nezu_cc Ай бұрын

Have been running this setup for ages and can recommend it. you can add a star cname in your DNS server so you don't have to add entries every time

@Dirizabl Ай бұрын

Great video, thank you Tim! Would you recommend switching to Traefik v3 if already have v2 setup working?

@lidbergtech Ай бұрын

Perfect timing! I've been intersted in Traefik and leaving NPM. Thank you Tim!

@SenorHamburgler Ай бұрын

Why may I ask? I use NPM and it's so seamless and easy

@lidbergtech 25 күн бұрын

@@SenorHamburgler I like to tinker and spin up new things quite often, NPM is great for ease of use. Traefik is just more powerful and diverse, especially with docker, kubernetes and promox. Nothing wrong with NPM, just having the knowledge of how traffic work is good on the cv as well. :)

@LegionInfanterie Ай бұрын

Thank you Tim, this is what I looking for this is best guide

@raymondvanderwerf Ай бұрын

wow....thx man! I will set this up for sure 🔥🔥🔥

@michaelventarola7100 Ай бұрын

Great update. Keep them coming

@carstenr.1682 Ай бұрын

Great video, Tim! Proxmox has its own ACME integration, so I personally prefer that way (because traefik is running as a VM on my Proxmox, so I want to prevent a race condition when the VM is down, Proxmox is not available through Traefik But for anything else - Traefik is great

@xDrShadowx Ай бұрын

I had the same thought about Proxmox. Any TLS termination with the right certificates should be made directly on Proxmox anyway. If you want to be agressive, this should be the same for most services as well (internal certificates with local CA between internal containers to reverse proxy // letsencrypt certificates on the reverse proxy to the rest of the world)

@ManelRodero Ай бұрын

@@xDrShadowxcan you explain a little more this solution for Proxmox? If It uses its own ACME for talking to Let's Encrypt, then we need to create its CNAME on CF instead of Pihole. Right?

@Glitch_860 Ай бұрын

anotther great tutorial. you mention difference in Docker Swarm. I am running a docker swarm in my homelab so would love to be pointed to documentation for that config. Also can I setup 2 certs in Traefik?

@tjoptjop09 Күн бұрын

Hi Tim, thanks for sharing this amazing video. I only need more help setting up multiple routers in the config file you showed us. can you explain how I can add more external servers outside docker to my config. like my firewall interface, other homeserver, printers etc

@patrickjoseph3412 Ай бұрын

Awesome video, tim

@nicoladellino8124 Ай бұрын

Very useful and nice video bro, THX.

@dorvinion Ай бұрын

Thanks for the local only explanation. Every one of these I've seen before expects you to want to directly expose things externally. Yes I want to access from outside, but only after I've connected to WG/OVPN One question, can this be done without the local subdomain? Would you just need to remove the . local subdomain from the examples provided?

@TudorRusu89 Ай бұрын

Just neat and on point! Congrats! Been following your videos for a while. A couple of questions: 1. How about exposing multiple ports on Traefik? 2. How about exposing multiple external services? 3. Can you do a more deep insight tutorial about internal DNS setup? All the best!

@2001CamaroSS2070 Ай бұрын

Yes to #2! I was able to add Unifi local access, but can't add Home Assistant or other local services that don't run on HTTPS by default.

@jaystuart6976 Ай бұрын

Great Video, Is there a particular reason you deployed this in docker and not kubernetes?

@jerealityjr 25 күн бұрын

Great Video, any plans for a video on how to securely expose to the internet?

@uuu12343 Ай бұрын

New video about OpenSSL self-signed certificate? Hell yeah

@surgical_17 Ай бұрын

Great setup to locally access it, but what if I wanted to access some of these services remotely aswell. Can I use and modify the same setup or do I need to make an entire different setup?

@victordou Ай бұрын

I just updated to v3 config based on your v2 tutorial, Thank you. I also noticed one more change from traefik: IPWhiteList middleware to IPAllowList... maybe deprecate soon?

@linuxbasics7060 Ай бұрын

your previous video worked great for me, this looks pretty much identical apart from the format of some of files. is it worth switching to traefik 3? like is it a big update?

@johnny4ever5 Ай бұрын

**knows he can create/edit file in one step but prefers two steps** Bravo good sir! So satisfying...

@Ripichip1 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the new v.3 update of your guide. In my case I use duckdns and I have had no problems. I noticed that in your example with ngix you use fewer Middlewares in the App Label (4) compared to the 12 in your previous Trafik 2 tutorial. Is that the new standard configuration for all the applications that I add to Trafik? Thank you very much for your time that you give to your guides

@Mandolorian84 17 күн бұрын

Amazing! Very good content.

@s4shermman Ай бұрын

I am so excited about this video ❤

@ExpressITTechTips Ай бұрын

Decided to do the video I heard the request from someone on your timtalks channel the other day 👍

@bzmrgonz 10 күн бұрын

@Tim, I didn't catch why mix traefik and nginx(specific need, or just showing compatibility?), and also, why pihole instead of cnames on cloudflare(is it a cost thing, security thing? or just having pihole already in the mix?)

@scottmielke4071 23 күн бұрын

Do you use traefik for externally accessible services? How do you typically separate those? Different docker hosts? How do you do the networking since you don't need to modify the internal DNS?

@beerreeb123 17 күн бұрын

Thanks for a great video. Any chance you can help those of us who use local CA certs and no lets-encrypt? Just a home lab no external services. I need to be able to run truly isolated with my cluster. Thanks again. Great content.

@imranmanan7346 8 күн бұрын

Hi how do you use separate instances of traefik to talk to one another like how you had in your home lab? Could you do a tutorial on it? like connecting docker to kubernetest to another kubernetes cluster.

@nowandthentech Ай бұрын

Awesome video! Actually, the first time that I was able to get traefik working. Quick question though I’m trying to do like you do in your video. I’m able to get the file provider to show on the traffic dashboard but when I go to the Proxima site, it just downloads a file instead of going to the site. Any ideas?

@nightmarenova6748 Ай бұрын

Whats the biggest new thing here, compared to v2? How bad of an idea would it be to just upgrade? At first glance i haven't noticed that at least the important settings changed that much

@cruzinsweetsntreats 24 күн бұрын

Thank you for the update. Alongside yours, almost all others with Traefik are about the same age. Be a good idea to link to this new tutorial, on the old one from 2021.

@kangy1103 28 күн бұрын

Hi, first off, thank you so much for this tutorial. Nice and easy to follow! That said I am having an issue I hope you can help with. I'm using a wildcard A record for my addresses through cloudflare and I'm not using PiHole at all. When I try to configure Traefik for workloads outside of docker using your template with my own information I get "Internal Server Error" when trying to load the webpage. Is this because i'm not using PiHole? If so, what do I need to change to fix the error?

@yourpcmd 29 күн бұрын

Tim, can you do an updated video on installing and setting up TrueNAS Scale 24.04? A lot of things have changed.

@mucsi96 Ай бұрын

Do you think it's possible to use this stack together with Cloudflare tunnel?

@VersedPlaysTM 28 күн бұрын

I wanted to mess around with swarm a bit more could we get this in a swarm version? after all we are homelabbing to simulate production environments?

@rzvendramini 23 күн бұрын

Great video! But afer watching it, I applied the ideas to configure Caddy. Traefik is excellent, but the configuration file is a bit complex and lengthy.

@MichaelSeagroves 25 күн бұрын

Are able to use this with two instances of pi-hole running on separate machines. Thanks

@sonalita_ Ай бұрын

will there be a similar update for the Kubernetes version?

@JustForUs 27 күн бұрын

Is there a good solution for automatic Split-DNS if I don't want to use a "local"-subdomain? How do you handle services that should be accessible publicly as well as locally?

@xneakersvault1556 Ай бұрын

Any recommendations to troubleshoot when the cert is from traefik and not from let's encrypt.

@cjchico Ай бұрын

Hopefully you can do an updated video for this on Kubernetes as well

@alpap6234 20 күн бұрын

So you added Pihole just for the GUI? Why not use tags to pass info to Traefik from any running docker image and let it manage the DNS?

@Equality-and-Liberty 16 күн бұрын

Hi Tim, thanks for the update on Traefik. I followed your first tutorial on Traefik and based on that I set it up and it's worked great for over 2 years now. In that old configuration, you worked with a config.yml file and in that file, you can define all your services based on their IP address and port number. If I want to use this new Traefik 3.X configuration with labels but from what I understand, I can only do so if the services are on the same docker host as Traefik right? If they are on another docker host I must use the configuration file. Is that correct?

@TechnoTim 16 күн бұрын

Hey! That's all in here too!

@Glatze603 Ай бұрын

Can you please give me the name or better yet a link to your cool white cabinet (on wheels, with drawers, etc.)?

@afnieves 2 күн бұрын

Thank you for your great content. I am trying to get Traefik and Cloudflare running in Proxmox LXC helper scripts. The chalenge I am haveing is getting the cloudflare api token running in the LXC because enviroment variables are a bit different than in docker secrets. Would you consider doing a video on getting this setup and running?

@JailbreakNation Ай бұрын

Just moved and am now motivated to unpack the homelab 😎

@shawnmcelroy1829 27 күн бұрын

would this work if I am using tailscale internally so I can use cloudflare to point to my tailscale IP's then set local network DNS to use actual local IP's instead so I don't have to use remote services?

@HenrickSteele Ай бұрын

By the way, you can use secrets for the traefik dashboard basic auth. Instead of .users tag, use the .usersFile tag. Also, why do you CTRL+O, ENTER in nano instead of just CTRL+S?

@plasticpippo201 14 күн бұрын

In the traefik.yml file can you point the resolver to unbound (recursive dns in a local docker container)?

@BreetaiZentradi 25 күн бұрын

I would love to see a video covering the pros and cons of Traefik 3 vs caddy-proxy-manager vs nginx proxy manager. I thought Caddy was going to be the bees knees so I went that route for my homeserver. Pros: the label sections in the docker-compose.yml is self contained and no need for open ports on the host, and you can use any caddy directives you want. Cons: You have to have the the docker-compose.yml files have a default external network. For work I have had to use nginx proxy manager (npm). Pros: All done in a gui, all the configs are centralized in npm. It is easy to setup certs for containers available on the local network by using a duckdns with an IP set to your private netowork and you do not have to have an external network setup. Cons: You have to have open ports to all the services on the host.

@MadMike78 Ай бұрын

Whats a good alternative DNS server? Looking for something different then pi hole.

@RobertFabiano Ай бұрын

I'm confused, what is significantly different between 2.x and 3?

@monish05m 15 күн бұрын

What does traefik bring for a long time Nginx user, i want to try this but i'm not sure what im getting in return other than a pretty UI.

@tykers. Ай бұрын

Any reason to use this over nginx proxy manager?

@outoflimitz 25 күн бұрын

Made a record in config.yml for pihole itself, but on accessing it through domain name it gives "Bad Gateway" error. Is it possible to set up pihole for HTTPS?

@denix0 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this, very informative! At 11:07 you say "we need to create a docker network called proxy", but I couldn't see where it's done... Anything special about it? Which driver does it use?

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

It’s in there!

@denix0 Ай бұрын

@@TechnoTim ah, 19:24 - it was so short, just "docker network create proxy", so I totally missed it... Thank you!

@CrioStageWorld Ай бұрын

I followed your last video and it was awesome thank you for that! If i may ask how would you make this setup high available? One of the issues I found on my setup is in: imagine that you have this in 1 Node and it serves as a front end for 2 or 3 nodes in your proxmox infrastructure.. if Node 1 goes down then .. yeah. Any plans to make a follow up video with High availability?

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

Thank you! You would have to have HA vms with Proxmox or move to Kubernetes.

@stanislavbozhikov9046 Ай бұрын

Hello can you pleas do explanation of how to put custom certificate.

@Naxgo530 Ай бұрын

Awesome! Any recommended specs for the docker host (docker01)?

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

Honestly anything will do! Starting at 2 core, 2GB RAM and 10 GB disk should be fine and then scale as you ned.

@CyrrelSneer 2 күн бұрын

Why don't you let out the pihole part and create the DNS records within cloudflare?

@jb-zo5tn 20 күн бұрын

says video notes are unavailable, but love your work! Keep it up

@TechnoTim 19 күн бұрын

Check again

@Glatze603 Ай бұрын

Hi Tim, the combination of a sub-domain with cloudflare doesn't work for me because cloudflare doesn't support sub-domain wildcard certificates. I have to use my domain directly. Thanks for the cool content. Would be interesting when you add authelia to this content for better privacy and security, too.

@zer0r00t Ай бұрын

I don't think the DNS part tells the CA to check those specific DNS servers. That would be a huge security risk. It simply tells traefik to use those DNS to verify that the TXT records are indeed visible globally before saying the CA to proceed with the next step (ACME protocol). What public DNS the CA queries from is not publicly documented

@MrVandammages Ай бұрын

wow great video, followed the guide I have treafik setup and certificate working great. But I cant get an external server outside docker to get proxied. My config.yml file has the correct server IP. but when I wget fom inside the Treakif container it resolved the traefik host IP and not the external server IP. Seems it is not using the routers rule.

@meteailesi 10 күн бұрын

Failed one more time :) , I can't understand what I am missing. Thank you for your efforts Tim :)

@photon92 Ай бұрын

@TechnoTim What do you need to change about the config.yml file inorder to add multiple sites? Thanks!

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

see the docs for examples

@photon92 29 күн бұрын

@@TechnoTim I looked through them but I am not super familiar with yaml to know for sure were to add additional sites.

@Hafenstrand5 Ай бұрын

Are the dashboard credential optional?

@carlosfranco9517 13 күн бұрын

Great tutorial Tim, As Always. I follow it to the letter but access traefik console I got the ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error. I tried several solutions, different browsers (use to use brave) but it only work wit safari. Any hint anyone?

@jwaltman21 27 күн бұрын

I keep getting a Let’s Encrypt error 400. Do I need to have any dns records on cloudflare resolved? They currently aren’t any associated with my domain name I’m using for traefik. Thx!

@Dka1337 14 күн бұрын

whats different in this tutorial if i dont use cloudflare since I use DuckDNS?

@drbyte2009 23 күн бұрын

As mentioned before, i followed this video and everything works fine! but i wanted to go further and installed Authentik to securely login on portainer with Oauth. I'am not able to get this working, been trying for more than a week now, but i can't find what is going wrong. On another VM i installed Portainer and Authenik and Oauth works fine. Can you please make a video on how to to this with Traefik / Portainer / Authentik

@alexjohansson328 Ай бұрын

Minor opportunity at 12:22- I always get bogged down setting permissions for family samba shares, docker user, etc. Take a minute to talk through the chmod operation

@ryanmalone2681 29 күн бұрын

what server OS' is this compatible with? Traefik and NPM don't like ports 443 and 80 to be remapped and when I install a fresh version of Debian or Ubuntu the container fails because those ports are already in use, even with nothing else running on it. is there some obscure OS I need to use?

@TechnoTim 28 күн бұрын

Those ports should never be in use on a clean install. Those ports are for web hosting. Something isn’t right with what you’re adding to the base install

@roellert Ай бұрын

Would one need the .local. Subdomain added in there or would it also work without?

@TechnoTim Ай бұрын

It should work fine without! I do that to distinguish between services that I host internally vs publicly hosted services

@roellert Ай бұрын

@@TechnoTimthanks man! You’ve got the best explanation in video format I’ve come across so far 🤙🏻🙌🏻

@roellert 28 күн бұрын

@@TechnoTim It's all working! I added log: filePath: "/logs/traefik.log" level: DEBUG to the traefik.yml to have some more insight in what it's doing though

@matse2627 Ай бұрын

Took me long nights to get traefik2 going how I wanted it - why change a running system

@demorez5 Ай бұрын

i was considering moving to traefik for ages, but everytime I look into that it seems so overwhelming its not worth the effort. SWAG works for me like a breeze, does everything I want from it and the setup is like 10% of this.