🐳 5 steps to set up reverse proxy and HTTPS (SSL certificate) for Docker container

1. Create Docker compose file for nginx-proxy stacks same as nginx-proxy.yaml

2. Run nginx-proxy stacks

$ docker-compose -f nginx-proxy.yaml up -d

3. Add these environment variables to your container, for example whoami.yaml

• VIRTUAL_HOST - Domain to access the container
• VIRTUAL_PORT - Container port
• LETSENCRYPT_HOST - Domain for issuing SSL certificate by Let's Encrypt
• LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL - Your email for Let's Encrypt notifications

4. Start/Restart the container

# example
$ docker-compose -f whoami.yaml up -d

5. Test

Run the following command to test the reverse proxy locally

$ curl -L -H "Host: <YOUR_DOMAIN>" localhost

Then go to your domain on browser for HTTPS and SSL certificate verification

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Thanks nginx-proxy for the awesome tool