Automatic reverse proxying with Docker and nginx

This repository contains the docker-compose.yml file used to bring up a collection of containers that will provide automatic reverse proxying and SSL termination for other docker containers.

More details will be added here in due course. For now, the full process is described in this blog post.

Hosting static content

If you’re serving static content, it’s not desirable to have lots of instances of nginx running just to handle requests from the proxy.

I recommend using GoStatic to host static content. This is a very small image that runs a very small Go binary to serve the files. You can use it in a docker-compose file like so:

---

version: '2'

services:
  www:
    image: pierrezemb/gostatic:latest
    command:
      - --forceHTTP
    labels:
      com.chameth.vhost: 'example.com'
      com.chameth.proxy: '8043'
    volumes:
      - ./www:/srv/http