Introduction

Setting up parse-server and the dashboard which requires a valid cert, which requires letsencrypt and a reverse proxy like nginx or apache takes too much time. Using docker and traefik is so much easier.

Traefik will watch any docker container using the labels set in the configuration file. If a new container is found, it will grab the cert automatically.

Instruction

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/seeya/traefik-parseserver.git
cd traefik-parseserver

Configure the following files to suit your needs

Traefik/traefik.toml

The domain in Trafik/traefik.toml should be the same as its other subdomain.

Parse/docker-compose.yml

13. PARSE_SERVER_DATABASE_URI=mongodb://mongo:27017/yourdatabase

25. - "traefik.basic.frontend.rule=Host:subdomain.example.com"

36. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_SERVER_URL=https://subdomain.example/parse
37. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_MASTER_KEY=MASTER_KEY
38. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_APP_ID=APP_ID
39. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_APP_NAME=APPNAME
40. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_USER_ID=CHANGE_THIS
41. - PARSE_DASHBOARD_USER_PASSWORD=CHANGE_THIS

51. - "traefik.basic.frontend.rule=Host:dashboard.example.com" 

Once configured, start up traefik first and then the parse-server. But remember to create the network web.

docker network create web

cd Traefik
docker-compose up -d

cd Parse
docker-compose up -d

Make sure to allow incoming request on both port 80 and 443

ufw allow http
ufw allow https

References

Look for the environment variables here:

https://hub.docker.com/r/parseplatform/parse-server/
https://hub.docker.com/r/parseplatform/parse-dashboard/