File Watcher for rules does not work

[SvenAbels]

I started traefik like this:

docker service create \
     -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \
    --mount type=bind,src=/ds/rtsync/traefik/etc,dst=/etc/traefik \
    --name traefik \
    traefik:v1.0.2

The config lists:

[file]
filename = "/etc/traefik/rules.toml"
watch = true

This works fine and the rules.toml is located outside the container. However, if I modify it, traefik does not automatically reload the rules.

Is there a way to make traefik manually reload the rules?

[emilevauge]

@ascora which architecture are you using? #595 (comment)

Are you on a bare metal Ubuntu, or are ou using a VM ?

[SvenAbels]

It's a bare metal server. I'm using the latest docker version 1.12.1 in docker swarm mode.

I also tested it on a second server from digital ocrean (I assume that those are VMs) with the same result

[SvenAbels]

@emilevauge As an intermediate solution: Is there a manual way to make traefik reload the file - e.g. via a curl call?

[cheiff]

I am having the same issue. I have to stop and start the traefik container for getting configuration updated.
I have this in my traefik.toml

[file]
filename = "/etc/traefik/rules.toml"
watch = true

The file works and is found, because the rules are loaded.
It also happens that the rules do not work, give bad gateway all the time. Could that be related?
Many thanks

[SvenAbels]

I found the reason for this. In our case, the rules.toml have been mapped to a shared drive (gluster) and it seems that Traefik uses inotofy to detect changes for the rules-file. But gluster doesn't support inotify yet...

[sunnysideocean]

I can confirm this with our gluster drive as well.