Proxy
=====

There's a `Traefik Proxy <https://traefik.io/traefik/>`_ running on all Docker servers, dispatching all incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests to the desired Docker containers.

The proxies also provides a dashboard, which can be used to display a few informations about the deployed routes & services (Docker containers):

- `Dev Proxy Dashboard <https://proxy-dev.confirm.ch>`_
- `Prod Proxy Dashboard <https://proxy-prod.confirm.ch>`_

.. hint:: 

    The proxies are deployed in the `Proxy GitLab project <https://git.confirm.ch/confirm/proxy>`_ and the dashboards are only available from within private networks.

Routing requests
----------------

If you're deploying a Docker container and you want HTTP(S) requests to be routed to your container, you've the options below.
These options automatically follow the URL naming scheme defined in the :ref:`Environments`.

.. important::

    You never want to specify URL's or Traefik rules manually. If both of the options below don't work for you, annoy Dominique first!

Static files
~~~~~~~~~~~~

To deploy static files, use the `Web Compose CI file <https://git.confirm.ch/confirm/gitlab-ci/-/tree/master/web>`_ in your GitLab CI pipeline. 
With this setup, you don't have to bother w/ Docker or Docker Compose itself.

With Docker Compose
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To get more control, create your own `Docker Compose <https://docs.docker.com/compose/>`_ (i.e. ``docker-compose.yml``) file in your project and use the `Docker Compose CI file <https://git.confirm.ch/confirm/gitlab-ci/-/tree/master/docker-compose>`_ in your pipeline. 
Now you're mostly in charge of the Compose file.