Tired proxy

Altered version of superfly/tired-proxy

An HTTP proxy that exits after a settable idle time. Useful for creating scale to zero Docker containers. Includes the feature to wait for the port of the origin server to be in use.

Usage

Inside your container script, start your web application and fork the process with Tired proxy.

./my-web-server & /tired-proxy --origin=http://localhost:3000

The proxy is now served at port 8080

CLI options

Option	type	default	description
idle-time	int	60	idle time in seconds after which the application shuts down, if no requests where received
origin	string	http://localhost	the origin host to which the requests are forwarded
port	string	8080	port at which the proxy server listens for requests
wait-for-port	int	0	maximum time in seconds to wait before the origin servers port is in use before starting the proxy server
verbose	bool	false	verbose logging output

Get the docker image

docker pull tiesv/tired-proxy:latest