Install Traefik

You can install Traefik with the following flavors:

Use the Official Docker Image

Choose one of the official Docker images and run it with the sample configuration file:

  1. docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 80:80 \
  2.     -v $PWD/traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml traefik:v2.0

For more details, go to the Docker provider documentation

Tip

  • Prefer a fixed version than the latest that could be an unexpected version.ex: traefik:v2.0.0
  • Docker images comes in 2 flavors: scratch based or alpine based.
  • All the orchestrator using docker images could fetch the official Traefik docker image.

Use the Binary Distribution

Grab the latest binary from the releases page.Check the integrity of the downloaded file

  1. # Compare this value to the one found in traefik-${traefik_version}_checksums.txt
  2. sha256sum ./traefik_${traefik_version}_linux_${arch}.tar.gz
  1. # Compare this value to the one found in traefik-${traefik_version}_checksums.txt
  2. shasum -a256 ./traefik_${traefik_version}_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
  1. # Compare this value to the one found in traefik-${traefik_version}_checksums.txt
  2. Get-FileHash ./traefik_${traefik_version}_windows_${arch}.zip -Algorithm SHA256

Extract the downloaded archive

  1. tar -zxvf traefik_${traefik_version}_linux_${arch}.tar.gz
  1. tar -zxvf ./traefik_${traefik_version}_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
  1. Expand-Archive traefik_${traefik_version}_windows_${arch}.zip

And run it:

  1. ./traefik --help

Compile your Binary from the Sources

All the details are available in the Contributing Guide