When we started our container journey with Docker some years ago, we looked for an easy to configure reverse proxy to expose our services to the inter

Install And Configure Traefik with Helm

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2021-08-17 22:00:11

When we started our container journey with Docker some years ago, we looked for an easy to configure reverse proxy to expose our services to the internet. Daniele had seen a video about the best Docker projects where Emile Vauge, founder of Traefik, delivered a presentation about Traefik. And, we decided to give Traefik a shot. We started with using Traefik 1.x, and then moved to Traefik 2.0 a couple of years later.

When Traefik 2.0 was released, we spent the weekend figuring out how it works, and the next week, decided to help others have a tremendous “getting started” experience by writing a simple step by step guide. And, with our roles on the Kubernetes team at work, we went on to replace the existing reverse proxy Ambassador with Traefik.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Traefik using the official Helm chart. We will also show you how to configure Traefik with Cloudflare. This makes wildcard Let's Encrypt certificates possible. Helm makes it easy to deploy applications onto your Kubernetes cluster. Even though Traefik supports both Ingress as well as Traefik IngressRoute, we prefer to use the CRD instead of Ingress which results in a lot of annotations.