Multiple Traefik instances in a single Docker swarm using constraints

multi-traefik-swarm.yml

# for i in traefik-net traefik-net2; do docker network create -d overlay $i; done
# docker stack deploy -c all-in-one-stack.yml multi-traefik-test
#
# traefik1 - UI: 8010, App: 8001
# traefik2 - UI: 8020, App: 8002

version: "3.1"
services:
  traefik:
    image: traefik:1.4
    command: --docker \
      --docker.swarmmode \
      --docker.watch \
      --web \
      --debug=true \
      --loglevel=DEBUG \
      --constraints='tag==app-stack'
    ports:
      - 8001:80
      - 8010:8080
      - 8013:443
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    deploy:
      restart_policy:
        condition: any
      mode: replicated
      replicas: 1
      update_config:
        delay: 2s
      placement:
        constraints: [node.role == manager]
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 1G
    networks:
      - traefik-net

  traefik2:
    image: traefik:1.4
    command: --docker \
      --docker.swarmmode \
      --docker.watch \
      --web \
      --debug=true \
      --loglevel=DEBUG \
      --constraints='tag==app-stack2'
    ports:
      - 8002:80
      - 8020:8080
      - 8023:443
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    deploy:
      restart_policy:
        condition: any
      mode: replicated
      replicas: 1
      update_config:
        delay: 2s
      placement:
        constraints: [node.role == manager]
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 1G
    networks:
      - traefik-net2

  web:
    image: johnharris85/simple-hostname-reporter:2
    deploy:
      replicas: 3
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 1G
      labels:
        - "traefik.docker.network=traefik-net"
        - "traefik.port=5000"
        - "traefik.frontend.rule=PathPrefix:/"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.sticky=false" # To test balancing behaviour, it's set to true on web2
        - "traefik.backend=app-stack"
        - "traefik.tags=app-stack"
    networks:
      - traefik-net

  web2:
    image: johnharris85/simple-hostname-reporter:2
    deploy:
      replicas: 3
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 1G
      labels:
        - "traefik.docker.network=traefik-net2"
        - "traefik.port=5000"
        - "traefik.frontend.rule=PathPrefix:/"
        - "traefik.backend.loadbalancer.sticky=true"
        - "traefik.backend=app-stack2"
        - "traefik.tags=app-stack2"
    networks:
      - traefik-net2

networks:
  traefik-net:
    external:
      name: traefik-net
  traefik-net2:
    external:
      name: traefik-net2

I tried something similar to this and could NOT get it to work. While the consoles/UI showed only the apps with the same constraint, the routing did not work for me, except for the traefik instance that was published as port 80. We have a Host constraint on the frontend.rule which is different for each app, but otherwise, I don't see why mine would fail. I'll try yours exactly, to see if it really can work!

Thanks to your example, I believed this could work. We identified the problem in our environment where we were forwarding from from an external load balancer to the wrong traefik port. Thanks to you for making me believe this could work!

Thanks for this, John.
Could we have some narration for this example? maybe also a diagram would be great. I'm trying to do something similar to this to have multiple Traefik instances without a config store. @EU-debenson

I tried something similar to this and could NOT get it to work. While the consoles/UI showed only the apps with the same constraint, the routing did not work for me, except for the traefik instance that was published as port 80. We have a Host constraint on the frontend.rule which is different for each app, but otherwise, I don't see why mine would fail. I'll try yours exactly, to see if it really can work!

Thanks to your example, I believed this could work. We identified the problem in our environment where we were forwarding from from an external load balancer to the wrong traefik port. Thanks to you for making me believe this could work!