alpine:edge-based sidecar container for forwarding ports to remote hosts
As the site says:
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications
This container is NOT a general-purpose containerization of haproxy, it is using haproxy exclusively the single specific purpose of forwaring ports in a container sidecar context.
The source code for this image is hosted on GitHub in the backplane/conex repo.
This is text of the entrypoint's usage function:
Usage: entrypoint [-h|--help] [arg [...]]
-h / --help show this message
-d / --debug print additional debugging messages
allow:<ip_cidr> add an ACL allow entry for the given IP subnet
deny:<ip_cidr> add an ACL deny entry for the given IP subnet
proxy:<listen_port>:<upstream_host>:<upstream_port>
add a frontend and backend pair that proxies
connections to the given port to the the given
upstream host and port
This container proxies HTTP connections to remote hosts.
The following shell function can assist in running this image interactively:
proxyport() {
docker run \
--rm \
"backplane/proxyport" \
"$@"
}