certificates.json

This is the empty file you have to create in traefik/certificates.json, as mentioned in Traefik's docker-compose.yml file
This file will contain your private keys, so remember to perform a 'chmod 600' on it or else Traefik won't store anything in it

my-go-app_docker-compose.yml

# This is your go app's docker-compose file, place it here : my-go-app/docker-compose.yml
# It does not need any ports opening since HTTP traffic is handled by Traefik

version: '3'

services:
  my-go-app:
    image: 'my-go-app:1.0'
    networks: [default, traefik]
    labels:
      - 'traefik.enable=true'
      - 'traefik.docker.network=traefik'
      - 'traefik.frontend.rule=Host:mysubdomain.mydomain.com'
        # The HTTP port your app is listening to, it's the port you normally would have forwarded with 'ports:'
        # But don't worry, Traefik will make it available on it's port 80/443
      - 'traefik.port=9000'

networks:
  traefik:
    external:
      name: traefik

traefik.toml

# This is traefik's config file, place it here : traefik/traefik.toml

# Log
logLevel = "DEBUG"

# Entrypoints
defaultEntryPoints = ["https", "http"]
[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.http]
  address = ":80"
     [entryPoints.http.redirect]
       entryPoint = "https"
  [entryPoints.https]
  address = ":443"
    [entryPoints.https.tls]

[docker]
endpoint = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
watch = true
# So that traefik will just create backend/frontend rules for the containers that have the 'traefik.enable=true' label
exposedbydefault = false

[acme]
# Enter your email here
email = "[email protected]"
storageFile = "certificates.json"
onDemand = true
entryPoint = "https"
[acme.httpChallenge]
  entryPoint = "http"

traefik_docker-compose.yml

# This is Traefik's docker-compose file, place it here : traefik/docker-compose.yml
# I like to have it in a separate container so that it keeps running even if I do havoc with my other apps

version: '3'

services:
  traefik:
    image: 'traefik:1.6'
    restart: always
      # This argument provides a web interface monitoring purposes, if you want you can remove it along with the 8080 port forwarding
    command: --web
    networks: [traefik]
    ports:
      - '80:80'
      - '443:443'
      - '8080:8080'
    volumes:
      - './traefik.toml:/etc/traefik/traefik.toml:ro'
        # You have to create the 'certificates.json' file (not dir!) beforehand and do a 'chmod 600 certificates.json' on it, or else Traefik won't store your private keys in it.
      - './certificates.json:/certificates.json'
      - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
    logging:
      options:
          # It generates quite a lot of logs when traefik.toml's log level is set to debug, so let's not keep it all
        max-size: '25m'
        max-file: '3'

networks:
  traefik:
    external:
      name: traefik