General

The implementation of nginx reverse proxy is based off of this project: https://hub.docker.com/r/jwilder/nginx-proxy/ and the incorporation of Let's Encrypt from https://github.com/buchdag/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion-compose.

Prerequisites

Docker

docker must be installed, please follow this documentation.

Docker Compose

docker-compose must be installed, please follow this documentation.

Getting Started

Create the following network

docker network create nginx-proxy

Start nginx-proxy and nginx-proxy-le containers

docker-compose up -d

Adding Services Behind nginx-proxy

For separate docker-compose.yml services you wish to put behind the proxy, add the following to the docker-compose.yml file.

    environment:
      LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: alerts@youremail.com
      LETSENCRYPT_HOST: your.site.com
      VIRTUAL_HOST: your.site.com

And, finally, add the service to the nginx-proxy network.

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: nginx-proxy

Other

Passing proxy_set_header parameters can be done in the optional proxy.conf file. To enable this, uncomment the following line in the docker-compose.yml file.

# - ./proxy.conf:/etc/nginx/proxy.conf