Which reverse proxy are you using?

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  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

  • There's not a setting you can turn on to block common exploits like in NPM, but it's possible to create a snippet and then import that snippet on a domain so you don't have to repeat it several times. Here's what NPM includes when you enable that switch for reference: block-exploits.conf

  • caddy-docker-proxy

    Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker

  • And if you're using Docker then you can use Caddy Docker Proxy to configure Caddy directly in your Docker compose files:

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  • selfhosted-apps-docker

    Guide by Example

  • Caddy

  • Traefik-v2-examples

    Traefik v2 guide by examples

  • My first reverse proxy was traefik, but it was just too complex, with too many abstraction layers for my use. I needed to re-learn it every time I went to make changes.

  • cloudflare

    Caddy module: dns.providers.cloudflare

  • If you're using Cloudflare then you might need the Cloudflare module which is a little annoying because you need to rebuild the Caddy executable (or Docker image) to include it. I just set up a GitHub repo that uses GitHub Actions to build and publish a Docker image that includes the Caddy Docker Proxy and Cloudflare modules, but I haven't figured out how automatically update the image when a new version of Caddy is released so it's still a manual process for now.

  • Pomerium

    Pomerium is an identity and context-aware reverse proxy for zero-trust access to web applications and services.

  • I’m really surprised this sub has no love for Pomerium. I feel like it’s as simple as Caddy with all the security benefits of Traefik.

  • https-portal

    A fully automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let's Encrypt and Docker.

  • HTTPS-PORTAL has everything I need.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • ingress-nginx

    Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

  • I use ingress-nginx in my k3s cluster, mostly because a lot of services have their documentation for either apache or nginx and I was already used to manually configuring nginx from back when I ran container less or with docker

  • ansible-role-caddy-docker

    Ansible role to deploy Caddy in a Docker container.

  • As I’m using Ansible in my homelab a lot, I recently made an Ansible role dbrennand.caddy_docker for deploying and configuring Caddy in a Docker container.

  • Caddy

    Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

  • In v2.7.0 (coming soon), Caddy will support parsing the "real client IP" from a configurable header as well. See https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5104

  • NGINX Unit

    NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile open-source web app server that has three core capabilities. It is a HTTP reverse proxy, a web server for static media assets, and an application server that can natively execute application code in seven different languages.

  • nginx, but nginx-unit looks very interesting. I might switch a few docker containers to use it before trying to use it natively.

  • caddy-docker-proxy-cloudflare

    A custom Caddy build with the Caddy Docker Proxy and Cloudflare modules installed.

  • Here is the Dockerfile i use to build my image: https://github.com/r3Fuze/caddy-docker-proxy-cloudflare/blob/main/Dockerfile

  • caddy-docker

    Source for the official Caddy v2 Docker Image

  • There is also a short section about it on the Docker hub page under the "Adding custom Caddy modules" section: https://hub.docker.com/_/caddy

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