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Traefik is a reverse proxy supported by Authelia.
Important: When using these guides, it's important to recognize that we cannot provide a guide for every possible method of deploying a proxy. These guides show a suggested setup only, and you need to understand the proxy configuration and customize it to your needs. To-that-end, we include links to the official proxy documentation throughout this documentation and in the See Also section.
Requirements
Authelia by default only generally provides support for versions of products that are also supported by their respective developer. As such we only support the versions Traefik officially provides support for. The versions and lifetime of support for Traefik can be read about in the official Traefik Deprecation Notices documentation.
It should be noted that while these are the listed versions that are supported you may have luck with older versions.
We can officially guarantee the following verions of Traefik as these are the versions we perform integration testing with at the current time:
{{% supported-product product="traefik" format="* Traefik $version" %}}
Get started
It's strongly recommended that users setting up Authelia for the first time take a look at our Get started guide. This takes you through various steps which are essential to bootstrapping Authelia.
Trusted Proxies
Important: You should read the Forwarded Headers section and this section as part of any proxy configuration. Especially if you have never read it before.
Important: The included example is NOT meant for production use. It's used expressly as an example to showcase how you can configure multiple IP ranges. You should customize this example to fit your specific architecture and needs. You should only include the specific IP address ranges of the trusted proxies within your architecture and should not trust entire subnets unless that subnet only has trusted proxies and no other services.
Traefik by default doesn't trust any other proxies requiring explicit configuration of which proxies are trusted and removes potentially fabricated headers that are likely to lead to security issues, and it is difficult to configure this incorrectly. This is an important security feature that is common with proxies with good security practices.
In the example we have four commented lines which configure trustedIPs
which show an example on adding the following
networks to the trusted proxy list in Traefik:
- 10.0.0.0/8
- 172.16.0.0/12
- 192.168.0.0/16
- fc00::/7
See the Entry Points documentation for more information.
Implementation
Traefik utilizes the ForwardAuth Authz implementation. The associated Metadata should be considered required.
The examples below assume you are using the default Authz Endpoints Configuration or one similar to the following minimal configuration:
server:
endpoints:
authz:
forward-auth:
implementation: 'ForwardAuth'
The examples below also assume you are using the modern
Session Configuration which includes the domain
, authelia_url
, and
default_redirection_url
as a subkey of the session.cookies
key as a list item. Below is an example of the modern
configuration as well as the legacy configuration for context.
{{< sessionTabs "Generate Random Password" >}} {{< sessionTab "Modern" >}}
session:
cookies:
- domain: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
authelia_url: 'https://{{</* sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" */>}}.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
default_redirection_url: 'https://www.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
{{< /sessionTab >}} {{< sessionTab "Legacy" >}}
default_redirection_url: 'https://www.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
session:
domain: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
{{< /sessionTab >}} {{< /sessionTabs >}}
Configuration
Below you will find commented examples of the following docker deployment:
- Traefik
- Authelia portal
- Protected endpoint (Nextcloud)
- Protected endpoint with Authorization header for basic authentication (Heimdall)
The below configuration looks to provide examples of running Traefik 3.x with labels to protect your endpoint (Nextcloud in this case).
Please ensure that you also setup the respective ACME configuration for your Traefik setup as this is not covered in the example below.
Assumptions and Adaptation
This guide makes a few assumptions. These assumptions may require adaptation in more advanced and complex scenarios. We can not reasonably have examples for every advanced configuration option that exists. Some of these values can automatically be replaced with documentation variables.
{{< sitevar-preferences >}}
The following are the assumptions we make:
- Deployment Scenario:
- Single Host
- Authelia is deployed as a Container with the container name
{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}
on port{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
- Proxy is deployed as a Container on a network shared with Authelia
- The above assumption means that Authelia should be accessible to the proxy on
{{< sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" >}}://{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
and as such:- You will have to adapt all instances of the above URL to be
https://
if Authelia configuration has a TLS key and certificate defined - You will have to adapt all instances of
{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}
in the URL if:- you're using a different container name
- you deployed the proxy to a different location
- You will have to adapt all instances of
{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
in the URL if:- you have adjusted the default port in the configuration
- You will have to adapt the entire URL if:
- Authelia is on a different host to the proxy
- You will have to adapt all instances of the above URL to be
- All services are part of the
{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}
domain:- This domain and the subdomains will have to be adapted in all examples to match your specific domains unless you're just testing or you want to use that specific domain
Docker Compose
This is an example configuration using docker compose labels:
{{< details "docker-compose.yml" >}}
---
networks:
net:
driver: bridge
services:
traefik:
container_name: 'traefik'
image: 'traefik:v3.1'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
command:
- '--api=true'
- '--api.dashboard=true'
- '--api.insecure=false'
- '--pilot.dashboard=false'
- '--global.sendAnonymousUsage=false'
- '--global.checkNewVersion=false'
- '--log=true'
- '--log.level=DEBUG'
- '--log.filepath=/config/traefik.log'
- '--providers.docker=true'
- '--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false'
- '--entryPoints.http=true'
- '--entryPoints.http.address=:8080/tcp'
- '--entryPoints.http.http.redirections.entryPoint.to=https'
- '--entryPoints.http.http.redirections.entryPoint.scheme=https'
## Please see the Forwarded Header Trust section of the Authelia Traefik Integration documentation.
# - '--entryPoints.http.forwardedHeaders.trustedIPs=10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16,fc00::/7'
# - '--entryPoints.http.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16,fc00::/7'
- '--entryPoints.http.forwardedHeaders.insecure=false'
- '--entryPoints.http.proxyProtocol.insecure=false'
- '--entryPoints.https=true'
- '--entryPoints.https.address=:8443/tcp'
## Please see the Forwarded Header Trust section of the Authelia Traefik Integration documentation.
# - '--entryPoints.https.forwardedHeaders.trustedIPs=10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16,fc00::/7'
# - '--entryPoints.https.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16,fc00::/7'
- '--entryPoints.https.forwardedHeaders.insecure=false'
- '--entryPoints.https.proxyProtocol.insecure=false'
networks:
net: {}
ports:
- '80:8080'
- '443:8443'
volumes:
- '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
- '${PWD}/data/traefik:/config'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.api.rule=Host(`traefik.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
- 'traefik.http.routers.api.entryPoints=https'
- 'traefik.http.routers.api.tls=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.api.service=api@internal'
- 'traefik.http.routers.api.middlewares=authelia@docker'
authelia:
container_name: '{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}'
image: 'authelia/authelia'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- {{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/authelia/config:/config'
environment:
TZ: "Australia/Melbourne"
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.authelia.rule=Host(`{{</* sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" */>}}.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
- 'traefik.http.routers.authelia.entryPoints=https'
- 'traefik.http.routers.authelia.tls=true'
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.address={{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/api/authz/forward-auth'
## The following commented line is for configuring the Authelia URL in the proxy. We strongly suggest this is
## configured in the Session Cookies section of the Authelia configuration.
# - 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.address={{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/api/authz/forward-auth?authelia_url=https%3A%2F%2F{{</* sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" */>}}.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}%2F'
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.trustForwardHeader=true'
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.authResponseHeaders=Remote-User,Remote-Groups,Remote-Email,Remote-Name'
nextcloud:
container_name: 'nextcloud'
image: 'linuxserver/nextcloud'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- 443
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/nextcloud/config:/config'
- '${PWD}/data/nextcloud/data:/data'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.rule=Host(`nextcloud.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
- 'traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.entryPoints=https'
- 'traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.tls=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.middlewares=authelia@docker'
heimdall:
container_name: 'heimdall'
image: 'linuxserver/heimdall'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- 443
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/heimdall/config:/config'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.heimdall.rule=Host(`heimdall.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
- 'traefik.http.routers.heimdall.entryPoints=https'
- 'traefik.http.routers.heimdall.tls=true'
- 'traefik.http.routers.heimdall.middlewares=authelia-basic@docker'
...
{{< /details >}}
YAML
This example uses a docker-compose.yml
similar to the one above however it has two major differences:
- A majority of the configuration is in YAML instead of the
labels
section of thedocker-compose.yml
file. - It connects to Authelia over TLS with client certificates which ensures that Traefik is a proxy
authorized to communicate with Authelia. This expects that the
Server TLS section is configured correctly.
- The client certificates can easily be disabled by commenting the
cert
andkey
options in thehttp.middlewares
section for theforwardAuth
middlewares and thecertificates
in thehttp.serversTransports
section. - The TLS communication can be disabled by commenting the entire
tls
section in thehttp.middlewares
section for allforwardAuth
middlewares, adjusting theauthelia
router in thehttp.routers
section to use theauthelia-net@docker
service, and commenting theauthelia
service in thehttp.service
section.
- The client certificates can easily be disabled by commenting the
{{< details "docker-compose.yml" >}}
---
networks:
net:
driver: 'bridge'
services:
traefik:
container_name: 'traefik'
image: 'traefik:v3.1'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
command:
- '--api=true'
- '--api.dashboard=true'
- '--api.insecure=false'
- '--pilot.dashboard=false'
- '--global.sendAnonymousUsage=false'
- '--global.checkNewVersion=false'
- '--log=true'
- '--log.level=DEBUG'
- '--log.filepath=/config/traefik.log'
- '--providers.docker=true'
- '--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false'
- '--providers.file=true'
- '--providers.file.watch=true'
- '--providers.file.directory=/config/dynamic'
- '--entryPoints.http=true'
- '--entryPoints.http.address=:8080/tcp'
- '--entryPoints.http.http.redirections.entryPoint.to=https'
- '--entryPoints.http.http.redirections.entryPoint.scheme=https'
- '--entryPoints.https=true'
- '--entryPoints.https.address=:8443/tcp'
networks:
net: {}
ports:
- '80:8080'
- '443:8443'
volumes:
- '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
- '${PWD}/data/traefik/config:/config'
- '${PWD}/data/traefik/certificates:/certificates'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
authelia:
container_name: '{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}'
image: 'authelia/authelia'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- {{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/authelia/config:/config'
- '${PWD}/data/authelia/certificates:/certificates'
environment:
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
nextcloud:
container_name: 'nextcloud'
image: 'linuxserver/nextcloud'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- 443
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/nextcloud/config:/config'
- '${PWD}/data/nextcloud/data:/data'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
heimdall:
container_name: 'heimdall'
image: 'linuxserver/heimdall'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- 443
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/heimdall/config:/config'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
whoami:
container_name: 'whoami'
image: 'traefik/whoami:latest'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net: {}
expose:
- 80
environment:
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
labels:
- 'traefik.enable=true'
...
{{< /details >}}
This file is part of the dynamic configuration and should have the path
${PWD}/data/traefik/config/dynamic/traefik.yml
. Please see the Traefik service and the volume that mounts the
${PWD}/data/traefik/config
in the docker compose above.
{{< details "traefik.yml" >}}
---
entryPoints:
web:
proxyProtocol:
insecure: false
trustedIPs: []
forwardedHeaders:
insecure: false
trustedIPs: []
websecure:
proxyProtocol:
insecure: false
trustedIPs: []
forwardedHeaders:
insecure: false
trustedIPs: []
tls:
options:
modern:
minVersion: 'VersionTLS13'
intermediate:
minVersion: 'VersionTLS12'
cipherSuites:
- 'TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256'
- 'TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256'
- 'TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384'
- 'TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384'
- 'TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305'
- 'TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305'
http:
middlewares:
authelia:
forwardAuth:
address: '{{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/api/authz/forward-auth'
## The following commented line is for configuring the Authelia URL in the proxy. We strongly suggest this is
## configured in the Session Cookies section of the Authelia configuration.
# address: '{{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/api/authz/forward-auth?authelia_url=https%3A%2F%2F{{</* sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" */>}}.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}%2F'
trustForwardHeader: true
authResponseHeaders:
- 'Remote-User'
- 'Remote-Groups'
- 'Remote-Email'
- 'Remote-Name'
tls:
ca: '/certificates/ca.public.crt'
cert: '/certificates/traefik.public.crt'
key: '/certificates/traefik.private.pem'
authelia-basic:
forwardAuth:
address: '{{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/api/verify?auth=basic'
trustForwardHeader: true
authResponseHeaders:
- 'Remote-User'
- 'Remote-Groups'
- 'Remote-Email'
- 'Remote-Name'
tls:
ca: '/certificates/ca.public.crt'
cert: '/certificates/traefik.public.crt'
key: '/certificates/traefik.private.pem'
routers:
traefik:
rule: 'Host(`traefik.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
entryPoints: 'websecure'
service: 'api@internal'
middlewares:
- 'authelia@file'
tls:
options: 'modern@file'
certResolver: 'default'
domains:
- main: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
sans:
- '*.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
whoami:
rule: 'Host(`whoami.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
entryPoints: 'websecure'
service: 'whoami-net@docker'
middlewares:
- 'authelia@file'
tls:
options: 'modern@file'
certResolver: 'default'
domains:
- main: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
sans:
- '*.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
nextcloud:
rule: 'Host(`nextcloud.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
entryPoints: 'websecure'
service: 'nextcloud-net@docker'
middlewares:
- 'authelia@file'
tls:
options: 'modern@file'
certResolver: 'default'
domains:
- main: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
sans:
- '*.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
heimdall:
rule: 'Host(`heimdall.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
entryPoints: 'websecure'
service: 'heimdall-net@docker'
middlewares:
- 'authelia-basic@file'
tls:
options: 'modern@file'
certResolver: 'default'
domains:
- main: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
sans:
- '*.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
authelia:
rule: 'Host(`{{</* sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" */>}}.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}`)'
entryPoints: 'websecure'
service: 'authelia@file'
tls:
options: 'modern@file'
certResolver: 'default'
domains:
- main: '{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
sans:
- '*.{{</* sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" */>}}'
services:
authelia:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: '{{</* sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" */>}}://{{</* sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" */>}}:{{</* sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" */>}}/'
serversTransport: 'autheliaMutualTLS'
serversTransports:
autheliaMutualTLS:
certificates:
- certFile: '/certificates/traefik.public.crt'
keyFile: '/certificates/traefik.private.pem'
rootCAs:
- '/certificates/ca.public.crt'
...
{{< /details >}}
Frequently Asked Questions
Basic Authentication
Authelia provides the means to be able to authenticate your first factor via the Proxy-Authorization header, this is compatible with Traefik.
If you have a use-case which requires the use of the Authorization header/basic authentication login prompt you can
call Authelia's /api/verify?auth=basic
endpoint to force a switch to the Authorization header.
Middleware authelia@docker not found
If Traefik and Authelia are defined in different docker compose stacks you may experience an issue where Traefik
complains that: middleware authelia@docker not found
.
This can be avoided a couple different ways:
- Ensure Authelia container is up before Traefik is started:
- Utilise the depends_on option
- Define the Authelia middleware on your Traefik container. See the below example.
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.address={{< sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" >}}://{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/authz/forward-auth'
## The following commented line is for configuring the Authelia URL in the proxy. We strongly suggest this is
## configured in the Session Cookies section of the Authelia configuration.
# - 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.address={{< sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" >}}://{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/authz/forward-auth?authelia_url=https%3A%2F%2F{{< sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" >}}.{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}%2F'
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.trustForwardHeader=true'
- 'traefik.http.middlewares.authelia.forwardAuth.authResponseHeaders=Remote-User,Remote-Groups,Remote-Email,Remote-Name'