HAProxy

HAProxy for IndieHosters

Warning: still experimental, use at your own risk

What is it?

This repository contains one of the most advanced and libre HAproxy for docker setup that we are aware of. It ships with:

• container discovery though docker API (like smartstack) based on Env var HOST (Based on docker-gen)
• ocsp
• letsencrypt

Once you managed to make this running, each time you add a container with the environment variable HOST it will:

• generate a valid certificate (if the dns is pointing correctly)
• serves the OCSP response
• serves your web container with https

Prerequistes

• docker
• docker-compose

Get started

git clone https://github.com/indiehosters/haproxy.git
cd haproxy
docker-compose up -d

The first time, you might need to run letsencrypt-watch in an interactive way to accept TOS and register your account. Use the following to do so:

docker-compose run letsencrypt-watch

And profit!

docker run -e HOST=example.org nginx

Contributing

If you have any issue (something not working, missing doc), please do report an issue here! Thanks

This system is used in production at IndieHosters so it is maintained. If you use it, please tell us, and we'll be really happy to update this README!

You can help us by:

• starring this project
• sending us a thanks email
• reporting bugs
• writing documentation/blog on how you got up and running in 5mins
• writing more documentation
• sending us cake :) We loove cake!

TODO

• renewal :)
• docker-swarm compatibility
• other backend (etcd/consul...)