This Docker container creates an instance of squid-deb-proxy that listens for apt connections on port 8002, and caches the packages.

Several third party repositories are configured in the ACL, in addition to official repositories.

Server Deployment

Using Docker Compose

Build the image and run the container locally.

docker-compose up

Using Docker Swarm Mode

Build the image.

docker build -t squid-deb-proxy .

Deploy the container to the swarm.

docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml debcache

Client Configuration

Configure apt on clients to use the proxy by specifying it in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00squidproxy file.

# /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00squidproxy

Acquire {
  Retries "0";
  HTTP { Proxy "http://<proxy IP>:<proxy port>"; };
};