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Author: Bcoderx6

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-# Traefik-DNS-Module
+# ☁️ Fully Automated SSL + Reverse Proxy with Terraform + Traefik + Cloudflare
+
+![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)
+
+> 🔧 Built entirely by a **2nd-year university student** during an internship — fully automated and production-ready.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 About This Project
+
+This project automates SSL certificate issuance, DNS record creation, and reverse proxy setup for internal services running on **private servers without public IPs**. It uses:
+
+- **Terraform** for orchestration
+- **Traefik** for reverse proxy and HTTPS
+- **Cloudflare DNS** for domain management
+- **MinIO** as the Terraform backend
+- **Twingate** (or other zero-trust solutions) for private server access
+
+All of it is wrapped into reusable Terraform modules to spin up a full reverse proxy setup — with just one command.
+
+---
+
+## 🧱 Stack
+
+- **Terraform** (with `null`, `cloudflare`, and `aws` providers)
+- **Traefik v2.10**
+- **Cloudflare DNS**
+- **MinIO** (as an S3 backend for Terraform)
+- **Twingate** (for private network access)
+- **Bash** (for server-side automation)
+- **Systemd** (to manage the Traefik service)
+
+---
+
+## 📂 Directory Structure
+
+```
+.
+├── main.tf
+├── variables.tf
+├── terraform.tfvars
+├── modules/
+│   └── traefik/
+│       ├── main.tf
+├── scripts/
+│   ├── setup_traefik.sh
+│   └── clean_treafik.sh
+├── files/
+│   ├── traefik.toml
+│   └── traefik.service
+└── README.md
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🔧 Requirements
+
+- A domain managed via Cloudflare
+- A Cloudflare API Key / API Token
+- SSH access to internal/private servers
+- [MinIO](https://min.io/) server for Terraform backend (or any compatible S3 service)
+- [Twingate](https://www.twingate.com/) (or other private VPN solution)
+
+---
+
+## 📦 Deployment
+
+### Step 1: Configure Variables
+
+Fill in your values in `terraform.tfvars`:
+
+```hcl
+cloudflare_api_email   = "[email protected]"
+cloudflare_api_key     = "your-global-api-key"
+cloudflare_zone_id     = "zone-id"
+controller2_server_ip  = "192.168.0.2"
+ssh_user               = "root"
+ssh_private_key_path   = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
+```
+
+### Step 2: Deploy Traefik
+
+```bash
+terraform apply -target=null_resource.traefik_deployment
+```
+
+### Step 3: Add Services
+
+```hcl
+module "service_portainer" {
+  source               = "./modules/traefik"
+  service_name         = "portainer"
+  domain               = "portainer.example.com"
+  backend_url          = "http://192.168.0.3:9443"
+  cloudflare_email     = var.cloudflare_api_email
+  cloudflare_api_token = var.cloudflare_api_token
+  server_two_ip        = var.controller2_server_ip
+  ssh_user             = var.ssh_user
+  ssh_private_key_path = var.ssh_private_key_path
+}
+```
+
+### Step 4: Access via browser
+
+Navigate to `https://portainer.example.com` with valid SSL, issued automatically via Let's Encrypt.
+
+---
+
+## 🤝 Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome! If you’d like to:
+- Add support for more providers
+- Add health checks or monitoring
+- Enhance module structure
+
+Feel free to fork the repo and submit a PR!
+
+---
+
+## 👨‍💻 Author
+
+Made with 💻 by **Yasindu Dissanayake** a 2nd year CS student & DevOps intern passionate about automating infrastructure.
+
+---
+
+## 📜 License
+
+Licensed under the **Apache 2.0 License**.
+Feel free to fork, build upon, and contribute.
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Final Thoughts
+
+No public IPs? 🕵️
+No Nginx? 🛑
+One command? ✅
+
+Just pure Terraform + Traefik + Cloudflare DNS magic.
+
+**Now imagine what I’ll build next.**
+