Deploy Bold BI with Traefik Reverse Proxy using Single Container Image

This section explains how to deploy the Bold BI application with Traefik reverse proxy using a single-container Docker Compose file.

1. Create a Traefik configuration file with the name traefik.yml for the Bold BI application.

   
   global:
   checkNewVersion: true
   
   # log default is ERROR
   log:
   level: WARN
   
   # enable dashboard on 8080 
   api:
   insecure: true
   dashboard: true
   
   ping: {}
   
   # auto-proxy containers if they have proper labels
   # and also use this file for dynamic config (tls)
   providers:
   docker:
       exposedByDefault: false
       watch: true
   file:
       fileName: /etc/traefik/traefik.yaml
       watch: true
   
   # listen on 80/443, and redirect all 80 to 443 via 301
   entryPoints:
   web:
       address: :80
       # comment out these lins if you don't want to redirect everything
       http:
       redirections:
           entryPoint:
           to: websecure
           scheme: https
           permanent: true
   websecure:
       address: :443
   
   tls:
   certificates:
       - certFile: /certs/<ssl_cert_file_name>
         keyFile: /certs/<ssl_key_file_name>
   

   <ssl_cert_file_name> - Name of the SSL certificate
   Example: domain.crt
   <ssl_key_file_name> - Name of the SSL Private key:
   Example: domain.key

2. Create a docker-compose.yml file that starts your Bold BI application with Traefik reverse proxy.

   version: "2.4"
   
   services:
   boldbi:
   image: syncfusion/boldbi
   restart: always
   environment:
       - APP_URL=https://example.com
   volumes:
       - boldbi_data:/application/app_data
   labels:
       traefik.enable: true
       traefik.http.routers.nginx.rule: Host(`example.com`)
       traefik.http.routers.nginx.entrypoints: websecure
       traefik.http.routers.nginx.tls: true
   depends_on:
       traefik:
       condition: service_healthy
   
   traefik:
       image: "traefik:v2.2"
       healthcheck:
       test: 
           - CMD
           - traefik
           - healthcheck
       interval: 10s
       timeout: 5s
       retries: 3
       ports:
       - "80:80"
       - "443:443"
       - "8080:8080"
       volumes:
       - <traefik yaml file path>:/etc/traefik/traefik.yaml
       - <SSL certificate folder path>:/certs/
       - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
   volumes:
   boldbi_data:
       driver: local
       driver_opts:
       type: 'none'
       o: 'bind'
       device: <host_path_boldbi_data>
   
   

   Replace the example.com with a domain name in APP_URL and labels section.

   < traefik yaml file path > - Specify the path for the traefik yaml configuration file
   Example: /root/traefik.yaml
   < SSL certificate folder path > - Specify the path for the SSL certificate folder
   Example: /root/certs/

3. Allocate a directory in your host machine to store the shared folders for applications usage. Replace the directory path with <host_path_boldbi_data> in the docker-compose.yml file.
   For example,
   Linux: device: ‘/var/boldbi/boldbi_data’

4. Now, build a container using the following command.

   docker-compose up -d 
   

5. Configure the Bold BI On-Premise application startup to use the application. Please refer to the following link for more details on configuring the application startup.

   https://help.boldbi.com/embedded-bi/application-startup