What is reverse proxy? What are its advantages?
What is a reverse proxy? Reverse proxy is kind of a server that sits in the front of many other servers, and forwards the client requests to the appropriate servers. The response from the server is then also received and forwarded by the proxy server to the client.
Why would you use such a setup? There are several good reasons for that. This setup can be used to set up a load balancer, caching or for protection from attacks.
I am not going into the details here. Instead, I’ll show you how you can utilize the concept of reverse proxy to set up multiple services on the same server.
Take the same image as the one you saw above. What you can do is to run an Ngnix server in a docker container in reverse proxy mode. Other web services can also be run in their own respective containers.
Nginx container will be configured in a way that it knows which web service is running in which container.
This is a good way to save cost of hosting each service in a different server. You can have multiple services running in the same Linux server thanks to the reverse proxy server.
Setting up Nginx as reverse proxy to deploy multiple services on the same server using Docker
Let me show you how to go about configuring the above mentioned setup.
With these steps, you can install multiple web-based application containers running under Nginx with each standalone container corresponding to its own respective domain or subdomain.
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