DockerDev HTTP Proxy

Based on excellent work here: https://github.com/codekitchen/dinghy-http-proxy

The difference of this proxy with the original made by @codekitchen is that this one uses a "shared" network to connect all the exposed containers using aliases. This way is more easy to make connections between the containers using the same host names.

Run

First, make sure the shared Docker network exists:

docker network create shared

Now start the proxy container:

docker run -d --restart=always \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro \
  -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 19322:19322/udp \
  --log-opt max-size=10m --log-opt max-file=3 \
  --network shared --name dockerdev \
  -e DOMAIN_TLD=lvh.me \
  juanwaj/dockerdev

Usage

Once the proxy is running, new containers started using Docker Compose will be joined to the shared network and proxied by the dockerdev container.

For example, if you have a container web in a project named foo, once the container is running, point your browser to web.foo.lvh.me.

Important note

If the container was created before dockerdev was installed, you need to recreate the container. This means, if you are using docker compose, you need to run docker-compose down and docker-compose up to allow the new container to be added to the shared network.

Using HTTPS/SSL

You can also offload SSL to the dockerdev container. That way, you can expose your applications through HTTPS without modifying their source code.

Let's say you have a service called app in project called myproject, and you're starting up dockerdev with DOMAIN_TLD=lvh.me. With that setup, using dockerdev you'll be accessing app by issuing requests to app.myproject.lvh.me.

If you want https://app.myproject.lvh.me to work, follow these steps:

Generate a crt/key pair. You can generate both at the same time using this OpenSSL command (replace names to match your service/project/tld combination):

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout app.myproject.lvh.me.key \
-out app.myproject.lvh.me.crt -days 365 -nodes \
-subj "/C=US/ST=Oregon/L=Portland/O=Company Name/OU=Org/CN=app.myproject.lvh.me" \
-config <(cat /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf <(printf "[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:app.myproject.lvh.me")) \
-reqexts SAN -extensions SAN

Put these files in a per-host directory. I use ~/.dockerdev/certs, but any other will do.
Start dockerdev mounting that directory in /etc/nginx/certs. See example below:

docker run -d --restart=always \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro \
  -v ~/.dockerdev/certs:/etc/nginx/certs \
  -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 19322:19322/udp \
  --log-opt max-size=10m --log-opt max-file=3 \
  --network shared --name dockerdev \
  -e DOMAIN_TLD=lvh.me \
  juanwaj/dockerdev

Restart containers so they reregister, which lets the underlying NGINX container properly configure vhosts now that there are certs.
That's it! In a browser, navigate to https://app.myproject.lvh.me and it should be working. Note: browsers will complain that they don't trust the certificates you're providing. In order to avoid that, you'll need to tell your OS to trust those certificates. In macOS you can do that by following these steps:

Open Keychain Access app.
Drag and drop .crt files to the app.
Double click each file, open the Trust section, select Always trust, close.

Development

If you want to make changes or just don't want to use the prebuilt image, after cloning this repository, first build the monitor service running:

docker-compose run monitor

This will leave a monitor executable on the working directory.

Now start the proxy:

docker-compose up -d proxy

That's all!