Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik

1. lando

   1 77 4,220 8.6 PowerShell

   A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating

   

   at the agency i work at we have been using https://lando.dev for some time with a lot of success. It is an abstraction over docker which isn't ideal but it allows us to quickly get going with projects and switch with no down time.

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. dnsmasq

   2 14 345 0.0 C

   Mirror of the upstream dnsmasq repository

   

   This seems like an improvement over my current solution in that it can keep multiple projects open simultaneously and route to each of them, but does add more complexity to the setup.

   I'm using Dnsmasq (https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) to map anything at .lo to the currently running project, like so:

    brew install dnsmasq

4. nginx-proxy

   3 104 19,699 8.8 Python

   Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen

   

   If Traefik is not your thing Im happily using https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy and sslip.io for local docker compose development.

   And then even plain nginx to proxy to non docker services...

   (And ipv6 for really short urls. E.g. `example.com.--1.sslip.io` etc)

5. caddy-docker-proxy

   4 60 4,135 7.3 Go

   Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker

   

   I have had a great experience with using this: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

   It combines caddy with docker-compose labels, making it super easy to spin up new projects that can immediately be exposed.

6. dotfiles

   5 8 13 9.2 Shell

   My dotfiles (by CGamesPlay)

   

   You can set this up with even less customization. Here's my snippet for doing so [0]. In this way, the default rule for all containers that are part of compose projects gets assigned a subdomain (service.compose-stack.lvh.me).

   However, even with my tweaks, the overall solution is still limited. Because it's not on "localhost", the browser considers it an "insecure context" unless you also set up local HTTPS.

   [0] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/13659d19ca899cea...

7. coolify

   6 169 48,593 10.0 PHP

   An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

   

   I believe this is the core of what Coolify[0] does.

   [0] https://coolify.io/

8. ddev

   7 25 3,410 9.8 Go

   Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments

   

   I use https://ddev.com for almost all of my web project development, which basically automates all of this. Per-project databases, web containers, plugins, etc, and it’s now using Traefik as its router.

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

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