Running a Flask application over HTTPS with traefik and Let's Encrypt

This is a dummy example to show how to run a flask_ application over HTTPS using traefik_ and Let’s Encrypt <https://letsencrypt.org>_.

To obtain a real certificate from Let's Encrypt you need a valid domain name. You have to forward port 80 and 443 to your machine IP if you run this on a private network.

Note that you should put your real email in the traefik/traefik.toml file.

To test, run::

# set the TRAEFIK_FRONTEND_RULE variable to "Host:<your domain>"
$ export TRAEFIK_FRONTEND_RULE=Host:myhost.example.com
$ docker-compose up

Go to https://myhost.example.com

Voilà!

For more information, see: http://beenje.github.io/blog/posts/running-your-application-over-https-with-traefik

.. _flask: http://flask.pocoo.org .. _traefik: https://traefik.io