Pods and Traefik (Labels for Pods)

[CDaxi]

Hi,

I was not able to figure out how my default way to go can be supported with Traefik.

At Traefik, I use the docker integration to detect the services.
The socket is action, single containers are no problem.

Is there a way to provide the necessary labels (e.g. traefik.enable, loadbalancer and rule settings) for pods?
It seems that there is not a lot of documentation out there for such an use case.

Could anybody help?

Thanks a lot.
Daxi

[eriksjolund]

I wrote some traefik examples here
https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-traefik-socket-activation
but I didn't use any pods. Instead I used custom networks.

For example, I added the label traefik.enable

Label="traefik.enable=true"

For details, see
https://github.com/eriksjolund/podman-traefik-socket-activation/blob/fde75fbea5b5294ef1e19410d7d9ee63ba345f44/examples/example1/whoami.container#L5

[Luap99]

I think the main issue is that docker has no pods so the docker integration talking to the podman compatibility socket doesn't know about pods either. So yeah I don't think you can use labels on the pod for traefik to read them.

Personally I just use the config file to configure to treafik instead of exposing the socket into the container which I consider insecure. That works fine with pods.