README.md

Traefik Ingress Controller Deployment Guide

Introduction

Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. Fore more detials about Traefik can be found here

Helm Chart

Instructions to use Helm Charts

Add Helm repo for Traefik Ingress Controller

helm repo add traefik https://helm.traefik.io/traefik

https://github.com/traefik/traefik-helm-chart/blob/v9.18.1/traefik/values.yaml

https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/traefik/traefik

Docker Image for Traefik

Instructions to upload Traefik Docker image to AWS ECR

Step1: Get the latest docker image from this link

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik

Step2: Download the docker image to your local Mac/Laptop

    $ docker pull traefik:v2.4.8

Step3: Retrieve an authentication token and authenticate your Docker client to your registry. Use the AWS CLI:

    $ aws ecr get-login-password --region eu-west-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin <account id>.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

Step4: Create an ECR repo for traefik controller if you don't have one

    $ aws ecr create-repository \
          --repository-name traefik \
          --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true 

Step5: After the build completes, tag your image so, you can push the image to this repository:

    $ docker tag traefik:v2.4.8 <accountid>.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/traefik:v2.4.8

Step6: Run the following command to push this image to your newly created AWS repository:

    $ docker push <accountid>.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/traefik:v2.4.8

How to test Traefik WebUI

Once the Traefik deployment is successful then run the below command from your mac where you have acces to EKS cluster using kubectl

$ kubectl port-forward svc/traefik -n kube-system 9000:9000

Now open the browser from your mac and enter the below URL to access Traefik Web UI

http://127.0.0.1:9000/dashboard/

AWS Service annotations for Traefik Ingress Controller

Here is the link to get the AWS ELB service annotations for Traefik Ingress controller

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Requirements

No requirements.

Providers

Name	Version
helm	n/a

Modules

No modules.

Resources

Name	Type
helm_release.traefik	resource

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
account_id	n/a	any	n/a	yes
image_repo_name	n/a	string	"traefik"	no
image_repo_url	n/a	any	n/a	yes
image_tag	n/a	string	"v2.4.8"	no
public_docker_repo	variable "tls_cert_arn" {}	any	n/a	yes
s3_nlb_logs	n/a	any	n/a	yes

Outputs

No outputs.