Adding a Reverse Proxy to the Compose Environment

Explore setting up a reverse proxy with Nginx and fixing gRPC connections.

We can quickly set up a reverse proxy using Nginx, a popular web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer application. We only need to set up a reverse proxy today, and thankfully, it is going to be quite easy.

Configuring an Nginx reverse proxy for microservices

  • First, we define a configuration file for the application called /docker/nginx.conf:

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