I had two container frontend (nginx :80) and backend (nodejs :3000).
I’m trying to redirect all path to my frontend : localhost/* to my frontend
Except one path to my backend API : localhost/v1/* to my backend
I secure my database container (mongodb) by allowing only communication with my backend
Here is my docker-compose.yml (I’m only using this)
version: '3'
services:
traefik:
image: traefik:v2.3
container_name: traefik
command:
- --api.insecure=true
- --providers.docker=true
- --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false
- --entrypoints.web.address=:80
ports:
- "8080:8080"
- "443:443"
- "80:80"
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
frontend:
image: registry.gitlab.com/test/frontend
container_name: frontend
build:
context: ../frontend/.
labels:
- traefik.enable=true
- traefik.http.routers.frontend.rule=PathPrefix(`/`)
- traefik.http.routers.frontend.entrypoints=web
networks:
- traefik-network
backend:
image: registry.gitlab.com/test/backend
container_name: backend
build:
context: ../backend/.
labels:
- traefik.enable=true
- traefik.http.routers.backend.rule=PathPrefix(`/v1`)
- traefik.http.routers.backend.service=backend
- traefik.http.routers.backend.entrypoints=web
- traefik.http.services.backend.loadbalancer.server.port=3000
command: yarn start
environment:
- MONGODB_URL=mongodb://mongodb:27017/backend
depends_on:
- mongodb
volumes:
- ../backend/.:/usr/src/backend
networks:
- traefik-network
- backend-network
mongodb:
image: mongo:4.2.1-bionic
container_name: mongodb
ports:
- 27017:27017
volumes:
- dbdata:/data/db
networks:
- backend-network
volumes:
dbdata:
networks:
backend-network:
traefik-network:
The problem is…
If the frontend (backend and traefik too) is turned on
- the paths to localhost/* work (this is what I want),
- but the paths to localhost/v1/* don’t work (Problem here!).
If the frontend is turned off but traefik and backend is turned on
- the paths to localhost/* don’t work (of course, that’s right),
- but the paths to localhost/v1/* work (of course, this is what I want).
I’ve tried a lot of solutions but nothing seems to work the way I want it to.
What did I misunderstand?
Thanks for helping,
Have a nice day
2
Answers
I added this label to my containers
traefik.docker.network=traefik-network
It works fine now
Try to add the following labels to the backend service
and frontend
you also need to add this line to your
/etc/hosts
and make sure that you stop and start the services
Complete Example
BTW, why do you need both traefik and nginx (Both are doing the same job), it would be better if you can replace one with another.