nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and [docker-gen][1]. docker-gen generate reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers they are started and stopped. See [Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker][2] for why you might want to use this. ### Usage To run it: $ docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock jwilder/nginx-proxy Then start any containers you want proxied with an env var `VIRTUAL_HOST=subdomain.youdomain.com` $ docker run -e VIRTUAL_HOST=foo.bar.com ... Provided your DNS is setup to forward foo.bar.com to the a host running nginx-proxy, the request will be routed to a container with the VIRTUAL_HOST env var set. ### Multiple Ports If your container exposes multiple ports, nginx-proxy will default to the service running on port 80. If you need to specify a different port, you can set a VIRTUAL_PORT env var to select a different one. If your container only exposes one port and it has a VIRTUAL_HOST env var set, that port will be selected. [1]: https://github.com/jwilder/docker-gen [2]: http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/03/25/automated-nginx-reverse-proxy-for-docker/ ### Multiple Hosts If you need to support multipe virtual hosts for a container, you can separate each entry with commas. For example, `foo.bar.com,baz.bar.com,bar.com` and each host will be setup the same. ### Separate Containers nginx-proxy can also be run as two separate containers using the [jwilder/docker-gen](https://index.docker.io/u/jwilder/docker-gen/) image and the official [nginx](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/nginx/) image. You may want to do this to prevent having the docker socket bound to a publicly exposed container service. To run nginx proxy as a separate container you'll need to have [nginx.tmpl](https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy/blob/master/nginx.tmpl) on your host system. First start nginx with a volume: $ docker run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx -v /tmp/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d -t nginx Then start the docker-gen container with the shared volume and template: ``` $ docker run --volumes-from nginx \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock \ -v $(pwd):/etc/docker-gen/templates \ -t docker-gen -notify-sighup nginx -watch --only-published /etc/docker-gen/templates/nginx.tmpl /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf ``` Finally, start your containers with `VIRTUAL_HOST` environment variables. $ docker run -e VIRTUAL_HOST=foo.bar.com ...