exercise-1

1. Installing Traefik using official Helm Chart

Add Traefik's Helm Chart

helm repo add traefik https://helm.traefik.io/traefik

Update the chart repository repo

helm repo update

Install Traefik with default values

helm install traefik traefik/traefik

Validate the installation

Traefik will be installed in the current namespace based on the Kubernetes context settings.

Check Helm Releases, please note the chart and the Traefik version.

helm ls

Check what pods have been created:

kubectl get pods

Check what services have been added by Traefik:

kubectl get svc/traefik

Check what other objects have been created:

kubectl get all -l"app.kubernetes.io/instance=traefik"

Describe the Traefik pod to see CLI arguments and other depoyment specific parameters:

kubectl describe pod <TRAEFIK-POD-NAME>

Update DNS entry for your domain

Get the IP address that has been assigned - EXTERNAL-IP - field and update your DNS by creating wild card entry: *.example.com pointing to the EXTERNAL-IP.

Review the values that can be customized during Traefik instalation;

https://github.com/traefik/traefik-helm-chart/blob/master/traefik/values.yaml