Generic TCP, UDP, HTTP Reverse-Proxy Setup

Question

I enjoy hipache, a HTTP reverse-proxy that uses Redis, but cannot support (in my experience) TCP. I really like easily scripting my basic (e.g. HTTP) reverse proxy needs, but the lack of any UDP or TCP reverse proxy is causing problems--I constantly have to remember that foo.com:49182 is mysql, instead of just using mysql-test.foo.com.

The only 'solution' I can think of is to set up a TCP reverse proxy on a different port (maybe 8080) and use that for the applications that need direct TCP proxying e.g. mysql-test.foo.com:8080. Similarly for UDP.

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

The author of hipache has some ideas. See https://github.com/samalba/hipache-nginx and http://blog.dotcloud.com/under-the-hood-dotcloud-http-routing-layer

Maybe you can have a combination of haproxy and nginx as others follows.