Reverse Proxy

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Reverse Proxy

Is a reverse proxy using nginx to present services hosted on the internal servers to the internet.

Host, port and path based routing is possible.

Configuration

https://github.com/eehackspace/eeh-reverse-proxy

Traffic Path

user -> https://<something>.eehack.space -> cloudflare proxy with forced TLS termination -> EEH_IP:80 (http) -> Mikrotik Router Nat 80:2095 whitelisting only cloudflare IPs -> docker_ip:2095 -> nginx container 2095:80 then proxied via path or host based routing to final destination