Middleware

docker-compose.yml

let’s limit the Requests to 10 Req / 10 Seconds.

  whoami:
    image: containous/whoami
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.average=10"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.burst=0"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.period=10s"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.middlewares=test-ratelimit@docker"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.rule=Host(`whoami.your.domain.de`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt"
      - "traefik.http.routers.whoami.tls=true"

restart container

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Test Limiting with Curl

user@docker:~$ while true; do echo $(date); curl -s https://whoami.your.domain.de |grep "Too" ; sleep 0.1; done
Wed Oct 12 18:43:57 CEST 2022
Too Many Requests
Wed Oct 12 18:43:58 CEST 2022
Too Many Requests
Wed Oct 12 18:43:58 CEST 2022
Too Many Requests

Test Limit with hey, 10 Concurrent

100 Requests, 10 Concurrent, Wait 1 Second between Poll