Ceryx - Simple, but powerful Reverse Proxy

Ceryx is a dynamic reverse proxy based on NGINX OpenResty with an API.

Ceryx is used to provide public URLs to tens of thousands of projects at https://www.sourcelair.com.

Proxy

Ceryx is using NGINX OpenResty under the hood, in order to route requests based on the request host. The routing is made using the NGINX Lua module, which is querying a Redis backend for results.

API

Ceryx comes with a simple Flask web service, which supports REST operations on routes. You can dynamically create, update, and delete routes on the go using a REST client.

Configuration

Ceryx supports configuration using environment variables. The supported configuration options are the following:

• CERYX_NAME: sets the API service name - defaults to ceryx
• CERYX_DEBUG: enables debuging on the API service - defaults to true
• CERYX_API_HOST: sets the host that the API will bind to - defaults to 127.0.0.1
• CERYX_API_PORT: sets the port that the API will listen - defaults to 5555
• CERYX_SERVER_NAME: the URL of the API service - default to None
• CERYX_SECRET_KEY: the path of the secret key to use - defaults to None
• CERYX_REDIS_HOST: the redis host to connect to - defaults to 127.0.0.1
• CERYX_REDIS_PORT: the redis port to connect to - defaults to 6379
• CERYX_REDIS_PREFIX: the redis prefix to use in keys - defaults to ceryx

Quick Bootstrap

Ceryx loves Docker, so you can easilly bootstrap Ceryx using the following command, given that you have already installed Docker and Docker Compose.

docker-compose up

You can also easily create your own production Docker compose file, using the services defined in base.yml file. An example Docker compose file could be the following:

# production.yml
proxy:
  extends:
    file: base.yml
    service: proxy
  ports:
   - "80:80"
  environment:
   - CERYX_REDIS_HOST=my.redis.host
api:
  extends:
    file: base.yml
    service: api
  ports:
   - "5555:5555"
  environment:
   - CERYX_REDIS_HOST=my.redis.host
   - CERYX_DEBUG=false
   - CERYX_SECRET_KEY=/path/to/production/secret

If you'd like to persist data, you can create the following file:

# dev.yml
proxy:
  extends:
    file: base.yml
    service: proxy
  build: proxy
  ports:
   - "8888:80"
   - "5555:5555"
  volumes:
   - proxy/nginx/conf:/opt/openresty/nginx/conf
   - proxy/nginx/lualib:/opt/openresty/nginx/lualib
   - proxy/nginx/sites-enabled:/opt/openresty/nginx/sites-enabled
   - proxy/nginx/sites-available:/opt/openresty/nginx/sites-available
api:
  extends:
    file: base.yml
    service: api
  build: api
  net: container:proxy
  volumes:
   - api/ceryx:/ceryx/ceryx
   - api/bin:/ceryx/bin
redis:
  image: redis
  net: container:proxy
  volumes:
   - data:/data
  command: redis-server --appendonly yes

The above Redis container will store data in the data directory of your project.

Development

Ceryx was developed as a private project for SourceLair PC. Initial development had different stages, having tproxy, Twisted and plain NGINX as a proxy server and backends ranging from MongoDB to etcd.

After a lot of experimentation, we have ended up in this solution and we'll keep developing this as an Open Source project. Feel free to make suggestions in the issues section in Github or open o pull request.

License

Ceryx is licensed under the "The MIT License (MIT)".

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 SourceLair PC

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