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+# Use with an appropriate .env file
+
+services:
+  app:
+    image: git.kolkman.org/olaf/link-log:development  # or :latest  or a version-tag
+    container_name: ${APP_CONTAINER_NAME:-linklog-app}
+    ports:
+      - "${APP_PORT:-8000}:8000"
+    volumes:
+      - ./linklog_data:/app/backend/data
+    environment:
+      APP_ENV: ${APP_ENV:-production}
+      LINKLOG_APP_NAME: ${LINKLOG_APP_NAME:-LinkLog}
+      LINKLOG_DATABASE_PATH: ${LINKLOG_DATABASE_PATH:-/app/backend/data/linklog.db}
+      LINKLOG_SECRET_KEY: ${LINKLOG_SECRET_KEY:?Set LINKLOG_SECRET_KEY in .env}
+      LINKLOG_TOKEN_EXPIRY_DAYS: ${LINKLOG_TOKEN_EXPIRY_DAYS:-30}
+      LINKLOG_TRACKING_PARAMS: ${LINKLOG_TRACKING_PARAMS:-}
+    restart: ${APP_RESTART_POLICY:-unless-stopped}
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "python", "-c", "from urllib.request import urlopen; urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8000/health', timeout=3)"]
+      interval: ${APP_HEALTHCHECK_INTERVAL:-30s}
+      timeout: ${APP_HEALTHCHECK_TIMEOUT:-5s}
+      start_period: ${APP_HEALTHCHECK_START_PERIOD:-10s}
+      retries: ${APP_HEALTHCHECK_RETRIES:-3}
+    labels:
+      traefik.enable: true
+      traefik.http.middlewares.web-https-redirect.redirectscheme.scheme: https
+      traefik.http.services.linklog.loadbalancer.server.port: 8000
+      traefik.docker.network: linklog_traefik # network to be shared with traefik 
+
+
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog.entrypoints: web
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog.rule: Host(`linklog.example.com`)  # Make sure to change
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog.middlewares: web-https-redirect,servicests # these middlewares must exist
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.entrypoints: websecure  
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.rule: Host(`linklog.example.com`) #Make sure to change
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.tls: true
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.middlewares: servicests
+
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.tls.certresolver: myresolver # or your resovler, e.g certbot
+      traefik.http.routers.linklog-secure.service: linklog
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