Traefik

Modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer on FreeBSD.

Port	80
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik
Source	https://github.com/traefik/traefik
Website	https://traefik.io/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users — recommended.
pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.
k8s	Same as :latest (s6) but with DAEMONLESS_SUPERVISE=orchestrator baked in: a service exit terminates the container so the orchestrator (Kubernetes, etc.) restarts the pod.	Alternative build.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  traefik:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest"
    container_name: traefik
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/traefik:/config"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      - "8080:8080"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=traefik
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  traefik:
    name: traefik
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '80:80 proto:tcp'
      - expose: '443:443 proto:tcp'
      - expose: '8080:8080 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - traefik: /config
volumes:
  traefik:
    device: '/path/to/containers/traefik'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:${tag}

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name traefik \
  -p 80:80 \
  -p 443:443 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -v /path/to/containers/traefik:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="80:80 proto:tcp" \
  -o expose="443:443 proto:tcp" \
  -o expose="8080:8080 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/traefik /config <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest traefik

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah, shares the host network stack (inherit), and persists image-declared volumes under --data-path.

services:
  traefik:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest"
    container_name: traefik
    network_mode: host  # jail shares host networking
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC

Save as podman-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Or via CLI:

bastille create -O \
  --env PUID=1000 \
  --env PGID=1000 \
  --env TZ=UTC \
  --data-path /path/to/containers/traefik \
  traefik ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest inherit

Ansible

- name: Deploy traefik
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: traefik
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/traefik:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/traefik:/config"

Save as traefik-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook traefik-deploy.yaml.

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Configuration directory (traefik.yml, dynamic/, letsencrypt/)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
80	TCP	HTTP
443	TCP	HTTPS
8080	TCP	Dashboard/API

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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