How to add service tags in the yaml? Do we still use kubernetesingress if we use consulcatalog?

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I have already setup traefik 2.2.5 using these providers

  • "--providers.kubernetescrd"
  • "--providers.kubernetesingress"
    I had been using kubernetes ingresses but now want to use consul.

I am trying to use consulcatalog now. A question is, if we use consulcatalog, do we still require kubernetesingress provider to route traffic?

Also in the consul documentations, https://docs.traefik.io/routing/providers/consul-catalog/, it says Attach tags to your services and let Traefik do the rest! The Service automatically gets a server per instance in this consul Catalog service, and the router gets a default rule attached to it, based on the service name.

What does that mean? Where do you add tags in our application services? Are these labels or annotations?

Note that i am using these right now in my traefik config using cli within my traefik deployment.yaml

  • "--providers.consulcatalog=true"
  • "--providers.consulcatalog.prefix=traefik"
  • "--providers.consulcatalog.endpoint.address=http://consul.service.consul:8500"

Hope to get some help here. Thanks

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