Is there a way to serve static resources with Traefik?

Question

I'd like to serve static ressources such as images, js bundles, html pages... with Traefik like I was able to do with nginx

# nginx config
server {
    root /www/data;

    location ~ \.js {
        root /www/bundles;
    }
}

Many thanks Cheers

Answer 1

Traefik doesn't serve static files (it's a not a web server it's a reverse proxy/load balancer).

You must use a container, which contains a web server with your files.

Answer 2

To extend the answer related to how files can be served:

If you are already serving files with nginx and want to migrate to Traefik you can still have nginx serving static files behind Traefik. I do this myself in hobby projects running docker standalone on a VM.

The best way is probably still to use containers such as S3 or Swift for static files as it will offload the traffic to the application server and provide a single location for these files (makes things easy when clustering) .. but if you don't have a lot of traffic and use a very simple setup, the nginx way is more than fine.

The issue around static files was discussed here : https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/4240