Forem: Kirill Bobykin

Easy local tunnel with docker environment

Kirill Bobykin — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:58:24 +0000

Why?

You can provide demo for your web application from development environment
You can use domain and https connection for test purposes
It is pretty easy to setup

How?

Try to use tunnel services like ngrok, localtunnel, etc...

You can check it with docker-compose. Setup docker-compose.yml, for example:

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'

services:
  server:
    image: nginxdemos/hello
    ports: 
      - 80

  localtunnel:
    image: efrecon/localtunnel
    restart: on-failure
    command:
      --local-host server --port 80 --subdomain $SUBDOMAIN
    environment: 
      - SUBDOMAIN=megauniquedomain
    links:
      - server
    depends_on:
      - server

Run this config with docker-compose up -d
Then check https://megauniquedomain.loca.lt/ you will meet your server root page.

How does it work?

I found great answer on stackoverflow for you!