chrisipa/pen repository overview

⁠Pen load balancer

Pen load balancer docker image based on Debian Jessie.

⁠Source Code

Sources to build this docker image can be found here⁠.

⁠Description

This Pen load balancer docker image contains the following software components:

• Pen⁠

⁠How to run the container

⁠Using docker

⁠Example 1: SMTP proxy example

1. Run Pen load balancer container with this command:

docker run --rm -p 25:25 chrisipa/apache 25 my.smtp.host:25

⁠Example 2: HTTP server SSL load balancer example

1. Create a folder for ssl certificates:

sudo mkdir -p /ssl

1. Place server.crt, server.key and ca.crt file in ssl folder:

sudo cp server.crt server.key ca.crt /ssl

1. Run Pen load balancer container with this command:

docker run --rm -p 443:443 -v /ssl:/ssl chrisipa/pen 443 -E /ssl/server.crt -K /ssl/server.key -G /ssl/ca.crt my.server.host1:80 my.server.host2:80