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+# Learning Tools: Traefik
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+This folder contains materials for working with Traefik, a dynamic reverse proxy often using in microservices-based architectures.
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+## Contents
+
+**aws-tf-traefik**: This directory shows how to use CoreOS on AWS (instantiated by Terraform) to create a Docker Swarm mode cluster and run Traefik on the cluster.
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+**tf-ans-swarm**: This directory contains an environment leveraging Terraform and Ansible to turn up an Ubuntu-based Docker Swarm mode cluster.
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+**vagrant-ansible**: This directory shows how to leverage Vagrant and Ansible to create a local Docker Swarm mode cluster, and then how to run Traefik on this local cluster.