Sidecar

A Docker extension to assist in web applications development.

• Easily set up a proxy, so that you can have multiple applications (virtual hosts).
  • Different domains are routed to different applications running in your machine.

Concept

Currently, only Traefik is supported as reverse proxy. Maybe we can add more in the future.

There are 2 ways to register virtual hosts:

• Use your local containers in the "web" network, and add labels so that Traefik discovers configuration.
  • Those labels are:
• If you're not using Docker on a project, or want to have total control, add a custom config file yourself.
  • Manually configure any advanced configuration

Roadmap

• Set up a reverse proxy
• Add applications
  • By adding Docker labels to containers
  • By manually adding a yaml configuration file (works even without Docker)
  • Add Applications on the UI (Traefik HTTP discovery) - Is it justified??
• Configure virtual hosts (hosts file entries)
• Set up local SSL certificates.
  • Not only you're mimicking the production environment, you can now also develop SSL-only browser API features.
  • Example: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
• Tunelling
  • Get an address that you can use anywhere in the world and reaches your computer
    • Demo a project to a client
    • Develop integrations with webhooks

Architecture

Basically, the extension's UI is a redirect to a full stack app, that is declared in the extension's vm. This is a Laravel application, with the Livewire library and achieves the following goals:

• Display the UI
• Manage persistence
  • Publish/edit configuration files
  • Manage data in a sqlite database
• Run Docker commands (it has the /var/run/docker.sock mapped, and docker-cli installed.)