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An updated guide to configuring Traefik with Docker, with explanations of why to do each step as well as how.

Intro I’ve not really used qemu much before but I found myself needing it last week for a particular project and discovered - to my shock and amazement - that the documentation (official and 3rd party) surrounding it is almost universally terrible. A mixture of overly-complex, out of date, incredibly niche, and just straight up poorly-written. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t after much, I had a single qemu VM and I wanted it to be routable on my LAN....

Introduction Did you know there are all kinds of interesting options that Docker supports but doesn’t necessarily expose, or document, very well? Most of them are very simple to configure and can have substantial benefits so it’s well worth investigating. Daemons All of these options are configured via the Docker daemon. You can pass arguments to dockerd via the systemd service file or, preferably, use a config file, which defaults to /etc/docker/daemon....

Update To The Update The issue with upstream proxies and the Traefik bouncer has been resolved by the maintainer. I’ll leave my fork up in case I get some more free time to work on it. I got impatient waiting for the bug with the Traefik bouncer to get fixed so I forked it and fixed it myself, as well as added a couple of extra features. I’m a Go n00b so don’t expect rapid development but it works properly with Cloudflare et al....

As you may be aware, I’m part of linuxserver.io where I maintain a number of Docker containers such as grav and syslog-ng but there are times when I need a container that isn’t a suitable linuxserver candidate for any number of reasons so I just publish it myself. It occurred to me that I should probably make an effort to promote them given how difficult docker discovery is on places like Docker Hub where there are hundreds of containers for any given thing, almost all of which had one image push 3 years ago and haven’t been touched since....

Update A nice man at Microsoft advised me that in addition to setting DefaultConnectionSettings you should also set SavedLegacySettings to the same value under the same key. This value holds, and I quote, “configuration used by network connections other than the default connection”. I have been unable to divine exactly what this means but it sounds like it might be important. Introduction You may occasionally in your career have had a want or need to set Windows proxy settings for every account on a machine regardless of who is logged in....

Introduction If you live in the Windows world you probably haven’t had much cause to use NFS because SMB is the done thing, but if you’re working with Linux hosts or NAS devices NFS can be simpler to deal with. The problem is that Windows NFS support is a bit…wonky and it doesn’t help that almost all the guides on t’internet are giving out bad advice. So to continue my series of “I just figured this out so it seems only fair to share” posts, here’s how to setup the NFS client on Windows properly....

Introduction LetsEncrypt is a fantastic service and it has quite literally revolutionised how people use TLS certificates, but having a Single Point Of Failure for these things is always a bad idea. The good news is that other providers of free certificates are starting to emerge and one of the first is ZeroSSL. Unlike LetsEncrypt they don’t rate limit, but they do require the use of External Account Binding (EAB) which means it’s not quite a drop in replacement in your config....

So in preparation for Google’s changes to Photos and the impact on my storage quota and I went and checked what I was using. Turns out my drive storage was using up 9.64Gb, which seemed like a lot, so I compared it to what my locally synced copy was using: 2.3Gb. Did some Googling and found out that items in your trash count towards the quota, so I went and emptied it....

This is just a quick collection of random bits I’ve learned about Traefik since writing my original How To.