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How to use docker-compose with Traefik

Traefik is a modern reverse proxy aimed towards applications running through container orchestrators.

Some of the benefits of using Traefik over NGinx are:

  • Real-time configuration changes - no need to reload the proxy
  • Auto discovery and configuration of services through a vast amount of container orchestrators.
  • Built-in official support for Let's Encrypt SSL with certificate auto-renewal

Traefik Specific Environment Variables

  • BTCPAYGEN_REVERSEPROXY to traefik.
  • LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: Optional, The email Let's Encrypt will use to notify you about certificate expiration.
  • BTCPAYGEN_ADDITIONAL_FRAGMENTS: In the case that you have an already deployed traefik container, you can use the fragment traefik-labels which will tag the btcpayserver service with the needed labels to be discovered.

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