Protecting Services with Google OAuth on Traefik v3 — Docker Swarm (traefik-forward-auth)

May 18, 2026 Nish

This guide documents the auth-host mode pattern using thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth:2 (TFA). It replaces the more complex oauth2-proxy approach that required a dual-router hack and an errors middleware to handle redirects in Traefik v3. Why traefik-forward-auth over oauth2-proxy? With Traefik v3, oauth2-proxy’s redirect pattern broke because: traefik-forward-auth issues a real HTTP 307 redirect directly from the ForwardAuth […]

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Using secrets in portainer

February 10, 2024 Nish

This is a quick post on how to use docker secrets with portainer. We will use the pgadmin service as an example to demonstrate this. Login to the portainer and navigate to the secrets landing page. Then click on create secrets as shown below. After saving the secret go to the stacks and create new […]

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