russmckendrick/nginx-proxy repository overview

⁠NGINX-Proxy

A Docker build which runs an Alpine Linux container with NGINX and docker-gen⁠

docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock -t russmckendrick/nginx-proxy

Once you have the router running you can launch your containers with the VIRTUAL_HOST environment variable;

docker run -p 80 -e VIRTUAL_HOST=some.domain.com -t ...

This is based on following by Jason Wilder ....

• http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/03/25/automated-nginx-reverse-proxy-for-docker/⁠
• https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy⁠

.... the only reason why I didn't use the Docker jwilder/nginx-proxy container was because I wanted to build it on top of my own base image, and also I am a operating system snob⁠.