Using Docker for a local HTTPS proxy

Sometimes when you're developing locally, you might need to use HTTPS, and might not have that tooling available in your framework of choice.

So I created this small Docker container which essentially creates a self-signed SSL certificate and uses nginx as a reverse proxy to pipe your request to whatever address you want to.

To use:

• clone the repo (https://github.com/zenOSmosis/docker-dev-ssl-proxy)

$ git clone https://github.com/zenOSmosis/docker-dev-ssl-proxy

• enter the repo directory

$ cd docker-dev-ssl-proxy

• run the following (replacing "http://localhost:8080" with your desired proxy-to address)

$ docker run --net=host -e PROXY_ADDRESS="http://localhost:8080" docker-dev-ssl-proxy

• Then navigate to https://localhost in your browser

(The address you've defined in PROXY_ADDRESS will be proxied through to https://localhost.)

Note: For production usage, you might want to check out: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag