Supercharge Your Kamal Deployed App with Traefik Middleware

Deploying web applications with Kamal couldn’t be easier. But did you know that you can use Kamal to add extra functionality? Thanks to the underlying Traefik proxy service, you can set up middleware to handle basic authentication, compression, rate limiting, and more, without having to add more code to your app.

In this video, I show how easy it is to add middleware to your Kamal-deployed applications, and demonstrate a few useful pieces of middleware.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction
2:09 - Intro to Traefik middleware
3:04 - Compress middleware
7:03 - Using newer compression algorithms
10:20 - BasicAuth middleware
14:22 - ReplaceRegex middleware
19:21 - RateLimit middleware
27:37 - Combining Traefik middleware
29:26 - Wrap Up

Related Links:

Kamal: https://kamal-deploy.org/
Traefik Proxy: https://traefik.io/traefik/
Airport Gap: https://airportgap.com/
Traefik middleware docs (version 2.9): https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...
Traefik Compress middleware docs (version 2.9): https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...
Traefik BasicAuth middleware docs (version 2.9): [https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...)
Traefik RedirectRegex middleware docs (version 2.9): https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...
Traefik AddPrefix middleware docs (version 2.9): [https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...)
Traefik ReplacePathRegex middleware docs (version 2.9): https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...
Traefik RateLimit middleware docs (version 2.9): [https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/v2.9/m...)
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