How To Use Traefik as a Reverse Proxy for Docker Containers

If you may want to run multiple applications on the same [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) host, you’ll need to set up a reverse proxy. [Traefik](https://traefik.io/) is a Docker-aware reverse proxy that includes its own monitoring dashboard. In this tutorial, you’ll use Traefik to route requests to two different web application containers: a [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/) container and an [Adminer](https://www.adminer.org/) container, backed by a [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/) database. You’ll configure Traefik to serve everything over HTTPS using [Let’s Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/).

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